21 Bible Verses about Fathers And Sons

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

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

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

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

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

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.

And fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.

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

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

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

"And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

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