Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
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Bible References
That
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Genesis 26:34
And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
1 Samuel 2:32
And thou shall see an enemy [in my] habitation, in all that I shall give Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thy house forever.
1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
2 Samuel 18:33
And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept. And as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
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2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you.
Philemon 1:19
I Paul write with my hand, I will repay, so that I may not say to thee that thou owe me in return even thyself.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than these things that I hear my children walking in truth.