Ezekiel 18:14
"But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father's example.
2 Chronicles 34:21
"Go, seek an oracle from the Lord for me and those who remain in Israel and Judah. Find out about the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord's fury has been ignited against us, because our ancestors have not obeyed the word of the Lord by doing all that this scroll instructs!"
Proverbs 23:24
The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.
2 Chronicles 29:3-11
In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord's temple and repaired them.
Psalm 119:59-60
I consider my actions and follow your rules.
Proverbs 17:21
Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.
Isaiah 44:19
No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves: 'I burned half of it in the fire -- yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?'
Jeremiah 8:6
I have listened to them very carefully, but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says, "I have done wrong!" All of them persist in their own wayward course like a horse charging recklessly into battle.
Jeremiah 9:14
Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.
Jeremiah 44:17
Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do. We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles.
Ezekiel 18:10
"Suppose such a man has a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things mentioned previously
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.
Ezekiel 20:18
"'But I said to their children in the wilderness, "Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Hosea 7:2
They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.
Haggai 1:5
Here then is what the Lord who rules over all says: 'Think carefully about what you are doing.
Haggai 1:7
"Moreover, the Lord who rules over all says: 'Pay close attention to these things also.
Haggai 2:18
Think carefully about the past: from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, to the day work on the temple of the Lord was resumed, think about it.
Matthew 23:32
Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!
Luke 15:17-19
But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!
1 Peter 1:18
You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed -- not by perishable things like silver or gold,