20 Bible Verses about Fathers And Sons

Son's sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

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

And he will go ahead, in front of him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn back the hearts of fathers toward children, and the disobedient in a mentality of the righteous, to make ready for Lord a people prepared.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

He who loves wisdom delights his father, but he who keeps company with harlots wastes [his] substance.

A fool despises his father's correction, but he who regards reproof gets prudence.

He who begets a fool [it is] to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of Lord.

Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

Besides, we indeed have had chastisers--the fathers of our flesh--and we were turned around. Shall we not much more be subordinate to the Father of the spirits, and we will live?

And which father of you, if the son will ask a loaf, will give him a stone, or also if a fish, in place of a fish will give him a serpent?

Behold, all souls are mine, as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.

Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish.

For I came to divide a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

A father will be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And a brother will deliver up a brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and condemn them to death.

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on thee, and I will scatter to all the winds the whole remnant of thee.