56 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword. For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: And a man will be hated by those of his house.read more.
He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me. And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me. He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right. Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward), So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts; Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up. Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;read more.
Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.

Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.

For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.

And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.

Master, which is the chief rule in the law? And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest rule.read more.
And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.

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

Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.

And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right. Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward), So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.read more.
And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea.

Then Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God in his mercy has given to your servant.

Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,

The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.

And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.

We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,

By faith Isaac, blessing Jacob and Esau, gave news of things to come.

And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!

And made strong prayers to him, saying, My little daughter is near to death: it is my prayer that you will come and put your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and have life.

Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,

His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.

Certainly the evil-doer will not go free from punishment, but the seed of the upright man will be safe.

Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.

My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training: For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.

For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.

If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment: Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place; And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink.read more.
Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.

Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.

Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts; And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.