Bible Verses About Parents: Curses entailed

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.

You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;

Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.