Bible Verses About Parents: Curses entailed

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.

You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.