Bible Verses About Parental Favoritism

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.