Bible Verses about “bad parents”
The Bible contains 38 verses about bad parents across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“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.”
“¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
“Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.”
“But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:”
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
“As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.”
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”
“Honour all [men]. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”
“¶ Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;”
“Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”
“For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:”
“As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:”
“For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:”
“Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.”
“¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,”
“Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”
“¶ To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious,”
“Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.”
“For what glory [is it], if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this [is] acceptable with God.”
“Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by [your] good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.”
“If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.”
“For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.”
“Which in time past [were] not a people, but [are] now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”
“‹Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.›”
“Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.”
“For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.”
“Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:”
“Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:”
“And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.”
“Unto you therefore which believe [he is] precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,”
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“¶ He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool [shall be] servant to the wise of heart.”