21 Bible Verses about Fathers And Sons

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction."

and 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 for the Lord a people prepared."

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

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

He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent;

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

Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.'"

For I have come to set a man 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 mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.