Bible Verses About Bad Parents

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

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

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

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

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

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

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

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

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

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

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

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

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

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

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

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

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

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