Proverbs 17:21
He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.
Proverbs 10:1
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
Genesis 26:34
And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
1 Samuel 2:32-35
And never again will there be an old man in your family.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.
Proverbs 23:15-16
My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.
2 Samuel 18:33
Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.