57 Bible Verses about Bad Parents

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

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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

Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes will be they of his own household.read more.
He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother shall trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he shall repent 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 thee this day, shall be in thy heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently to thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thy eyes.read more.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were ended, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose 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. Thus did Job continually.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they will keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yes, he shall give delight to thy soul.

Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.read more.
And the second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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

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

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

But I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Honor thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may be well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

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

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

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise)

But whoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in me, to sin, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given to thy servant.

Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.

We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath fed me all my life long to this day,

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

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

And Abraham said to God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she will live.

Her children rise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

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

They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.

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

But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away their punishment: because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked:

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, 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 shall have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not hearken to them: Then shall his father and his mother 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 our son 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, that he may die: so shalt thou remove evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

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

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers.

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?

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

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.