57 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

And fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him early.

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

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I did not come to send peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be those of his own household.read more.
He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life shall lose it. And he who loses his life for My sake shall find it.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise), so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

Take heed to yourselves. If your brother trespasses against you, rebuke him. And if he repents, forgive him.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh.

And these words which I command you this day shall be in your heart. And you shall carefully teach them to your sons, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.read more.
And you shall write them upon the posts of your house, and on your gates.

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

For I know the purposes which I am purposing for you, says Jehovah; purposes of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

And when they had gone around the day of feasting, Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. So Job did always.

Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not set your soul on making him die.

For I know him, that he will command his sons and his house after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do justice and judgment, that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which He has spoken of him.

Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight to your soul.

Master, which is the great commandment in the Law? Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment.read more.
And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

For I have come to set a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Tell your sons of it, and let your sons tell their sons, and their sons another generation.

As a father pities his children, Jehovah pities those who fear Him.

But I said to their sons in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Do not withhold correction from a boy, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother;

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God has commanded you, so that your days may be made longer, and that it may go well with you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise), so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.read more.
And fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

"For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh."

Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),

But whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believes in Me, it would be better for him that an ass's millstone were hung around his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the sea.

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the boys, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The boys with whom God has favored your servant.

Lo, children are the inheritance of Jehovah; the fruit of the womb is a reward.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

The living, the living, he shall praise You, as I do this day; the father shall make Your truth known to the sons.

and so that you may tell in the ears of your son, and of your son's sons, what things I have worked in Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them, so that you may know that I am Jehovah.

We will not hide them from their sons, showing to the generations to come the praises of Jehovah, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He has done.

And he blessed Joseph and said, May God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who fed me all my life to this day,

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

And in all the land there were not found women as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before You!

And he begged Him greatly, saying, My little daughter lies at the point of death. Come, lay Your hands on her, so that she may be healed, and she shall live.

Her sons rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.

His seed shall be mighty on earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be innocent; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

They will not labor in vain, nor bring forth for terror. For they are the seed of the beloved of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.

You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me,

You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you ruined your land and killed your people; the seed of evildoers shall never be famous.

Our fathers have sinned and are not; we have borne their iniquities.

but they have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they have despised the Laws of Jehovah, and have not kept His commandments. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.

My son, do not despise the chastening of Jehovah; nor be weary with His correction; for whom Jehovah loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

Finally, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think on these things.

If a man has a son who is stubborn and rebels, who will not obey his father's voice or his mother's voice, even when they have chastened him he will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place. And they shall say to the elders of his city, this son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.read more.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones so that he dies. So shall you put evil away from you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.

Blessed is he who seizes and dashes your little ones against the stones.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Let not any filthy word go out of your mouth, but if any is good to building up in respect of need, that it may give grace to the ones hearing.

and said, For this cause a man shall leave father and mother and shall cling to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh?

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

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.