48 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong

A foolish (stupid) son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, that they not be discouraged.

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law against her mother in law.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.

He who strikes (beats) his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you. I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. The children should not provide for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Whoever robs his father or mother, and says: It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a man who destroys.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Jehovah gave the following regulations. Any of you that curse your father or mother shall be put to death. You are responsible for your own death.

I will be a Father to you, and you will be to me sons and daughters, said Jehovah God the Almighty. (Hosea 1:10)

Correct your son while there is hope. Do not contribute to his death.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Jesus answered: This man did not sin. Neither did his parents sin. The works of God should be made known in him.

A wise son makes a father glad. A foolish man despises his mother.

Even your relatives, members of your own family, have betrayed you. They join in the attacks against you. Do not trust them, even though they speak friendly words.

Call no man your father on the earth, for only one is your Father in heaven.

The eye that mocks his father, and rejects obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.

What is it in which you were inferior to other congregations, except that I was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

In this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed. Whoever does not practice righteousness is not from God. He who does not love his brother is not from God.

God said, 'Honor your father and mother.' 'He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.'

Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.

Respect your mother and father. Observe my days of worship. I am Jehovah your God!

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. The rod of discipline (instruction) will drive it far from him.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord.

For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong that he has done. There is no partiality.

I said to their children in the desert: Do not live by the laws of your ancestors. Do not obey their rules or dishonor yourselves with their disgusting idols.

Do not treat these little ones badly. I tell you that angels represent them in the presence of my Father in heaven.

Jehovah is patient, forever loving; He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience. He never lets the guilty go unpunished. In fact he punishes children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation.

This is the story of Jacob and his descendants. Joseph was a seventeen-year-old young man. He took care of the flocks with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph told his father about the bad things his brothers were doing.

The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son's iniquity. The righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself. And the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.

It is in my power to do you harm. But the God of your father came to me this night. He said, 'Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.'

A wise son heeds his father's instruction (discipline). A scoffer does not listen to discipline (reproof).

I will be his father. He will be my son. When he does wrong I will correct him just as parents correct children.

When that time comes people will no longer say: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and their children's teeth are set on edge.'

Children oppress my people! Women rule over them. O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray. They confuse the direction of your paths.

Do not withhold discipline from a child. If you spank him with a stick he will not die.

But before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

If one man sins against another, God will judge him. But if a man sins against Jehovah, who will intercede for him? But his sons did not listen to the voice of their father. Jehovah desired to put them to death.

Maintain fine behavior among the nations. That way when they speak badly about you, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation (inspection).

You will then act as true children of your Father in heaven. He gives sunlight to both evil and good people. He sends rain for the just and the unjust.

Our fathers were sinners and are dead. The weight of their evil deeds is on us.

Do not be like your ancestors and your relatives who were unfaithful to Jehovah the God of their ancestors. He made them something that shocks people, as you have seen.

Do not forget your friends or your father's friends. If you are in trouble, do not ask a relative for help. A nearby neighbor can help you more than relatives who are far away.

Do not rebuke (censure) (criticize) an elder, but appeal to him as a father, the younger men as brothers.

God deals with you like children. Endure discipline (instruction) (training). Who is the child whom a father does not discipline?

Parent, brothers and sisters and friends will turn you over and cause you to be put to death.

Even a child is known by his deeds, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.