Proverbs 17:21
He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow, and the father of a fool shall have no joy.
Proverbs 10:1
A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is sadness unto his mother.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is a pain unto his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.
Proverbs 17:25
The foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bore him.
Genesis 26:34
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon, the Hittite:
1 Samuel 2:32-35
And thou shalt see a competitor in my tabernacle in all the things in which I shall do good unto Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.
Proverbs 15:20
The wise son makes a glad father, but the foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 23:15-16
My son, if thy heart is wise, my heart shall also rejoice;
1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after greed, receiving bribes and perverting that which is right.
2 Samuel 18:33
Then the king was much moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept; and as he went, he said this: O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! I would rather have died instead of thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this same unto you, lest when I came, I should have grief from those of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my sons walk in the truth.