21 Bible Verses about Fathers And Sons

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the honour of the children are their fathers.

and he shall convert the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with destruction.

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the rebellious to the prudence of the just, to make ready a prepared people for the Lord.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begets a wise child shall have joy with him.

A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is sadness unto his mother.

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

Whosoever loves wisdom causes his father to rejoice, but he that maintains harlots shall lose his inheritance.

The fool despises his father's chastening, but he that regards reproof shall become prudent.

He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow, and the father of a fool shall have no joy.

The foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bore him.

A foolish son is a pain unto his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

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

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

Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; is it not much better to be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?

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?

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 saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

For I have 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.

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.

And brother shall deliver up brother unto death, and the father the child, and children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death.

For 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 I will scatter into all the winds.