Bible Verses About Bad Parents
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for bad parents, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,659 votes, led by Psalms 27:10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Bad Parents
Psalms 27:10787 votes
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
Colossians 3:21628 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Ephesians 4:29405 votes
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.
Isaiah 49:15368 votes
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.
Proverbs 22:6345 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
1 Timothy 5:8334 votes
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.
Ezekiel 18:20330 votes
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.
Ephesians 6:4275 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Galatians 6:7263 votes
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
2 Corinthians 12:14249 votes
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.
Luke 17:3226 votes
Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
Exodus 20:12177 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Proverbs 11:29169 votes
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
1 Peter 2:1-25149 votes
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Proverbs 13:24131 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs 14:1128 votes
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
1 John 2:1-29127 votes
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:
Psalms 103:13113 votes
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
Proverbs 3:11-1286 votes
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:
Proverbs 1:8-985 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
1 John 3:1583 votes
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Ephesians 6:1-482 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 13:2277 votes
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Luke 17:1-3776 votes
Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
Psalms 23:473 votes
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.
What does the Bible say about bad parents?
Readers most often cite Psalms 27:10 on the subject of bad parents. Across 8,659 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:21, Ephesians 4:29, Isaiah 49:15. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.