21 Bible Verses about Fathers And Sons

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

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.

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn hearts of fathers to children, and disobedient ones to the thoughts of just men, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.

The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise son shall have joy of him:

The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; but he that is a companion of harlots destroyeth his substance.

A fool despiseth his father's instruction; but he that regardeth reproof becometh prudent.

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow, and the father of a vile man hath no joy.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that 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 provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?

Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and the father shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?

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

Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall over them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law;

father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put 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 in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter to all the winds.