hating your parents
What does the Bible say about hating your parents? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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26“If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yes, even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple.
16Cursed be he who does not honor his father and mother. And all the people shall say: Amen.
37Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.
20A wise son gladdens the father. But the foolish man despises his mother.
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.
12Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
8Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,
6The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.
14Behold, this is the third time I have prepared to come to you, and yet I will not be a burden to you. For I am seeking not the things that are yours, but you yourselves. And neither should the children store up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
20Children, obey your parents in all things. For this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
5You shall not adore them, nor shall you worship them. I am the Lord your God: strong, zealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
9If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
8But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,
4And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.
17The eye of one who mocks his father and who despises the childbearing of his mother, let the ravens of the torrent tear it out, and let the sons of the eagles consume it.
22But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,