14 Bible Verses about Controlling Parents

Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

“Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his 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 his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

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

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He 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 great and foremost commandment.read more.
The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
But the Lord will take me up.

Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

He who troubles his own house will inherit wind,
And the foolish will be servant to the wisehearted.

He whose ear listens to the life-giving reproof
Will dwell among the wise.