What Does the Bible Say About Grown Children Hating Their Parents?

Matthew 10:21 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 27:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Luke 14:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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

Exodus 20:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

10 Bible Verses about Grown Children Hating Their Parents

Matthew 10:21 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 27:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Luke 14:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Exodus 20:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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10 Bible Verses about Grown Children Hating Their Parents

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Matthew 10:21 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 27:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Luke 14:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Exodus 20:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote