14 Bible Verses about Controlling Parents

"Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

"Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword! I came to turn "a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A person's enemies will include members of his own family.'read more.
"The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn't worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me. The one who doesn't take up his cross and follow me isn't worthy of me. The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it."

For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, "plans for well-being, and not for calamity, in order to give you a future and a hope.

(Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they will become one flesh.)

Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.

"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus told him, ""You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and most important commandment. read more.
The second is exactly like it: "You must love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments."

I came to turn "a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it,

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training and instructing them about the Lord.

"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Though my father and my mother abandoned me, the LORD gathers me up.

Now I'm ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things, but rather you yourselves. Children should not have to support their parents, but parents their children.

Whoever troubles his household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be a servant to the wise.

Whoever listens to a life-giving rebuke will be at home among the wise.