Bible Verses About Abusive Parents

“Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.”

“If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”

“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.”

“So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.”

“Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.”

“An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.”

“He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.”

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love. We love because He first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.”

“And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.”

“He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.”

“Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

“Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition, knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.”

“For He was indeed crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God’s power. For we are also weak in Him, yet by God’s power we will live with Him concerning you.”

“And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.”

“As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.”

“Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who leads an undisciplined life that is not in keeping with the tradition you received from us.”

“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.”