48 Bible Verses about Parents Being Wrong
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A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't 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."
"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." He is a partner with a destroyer.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
"'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."
Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
"The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
"'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
'Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.'
This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'
A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.
I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him?" Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.
having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
Don't be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?
You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.
Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
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