21 Bible Verses about Fathers And Sons

The crown of the elderly [are] {grandchildren}, and the glory of children [is] their fathers.

And he will bring back [the] hearts of [the] fathers to [the] sons, and the hearts of [the] sons to their fathers, so that I will not come and strike the land [with] a ban."

And he will go on 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 righteous, to prepare for the Lord a people made ready."

The father of the righteous will surely rejoice; he who bears a wise person will be happy with him.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.

A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a {foolish person}, he despises his mother.

A man who loves wisdom will make his parents glad, but the friend of prostitutes will squander his wealth.

A fool will despise the instruction of his father, but he who guards reproof is prudent.

He who begets a fool, [there is] trouble for him; the father of a fool will not rejoice.

A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Endure [it] for discipline. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son [is there] whom a father does not discipline?

Furthermore, we have had {our earthly fathers} who disciplined [us], and we respected [them]. Will we not much rather subject ourselves to the Father of spirits and live?

But what father from among you, [if his] son will ask for a fish, instead of a fish will give him a snake?

Look! {All lives are mine}. {The lives of father and son alike are mine}. The person sinning will die.

{Therefore} thus says Yahweh: "Look, I [am] about to put before this people stumbling blocks, and they will stumble against them, fathers and children together, neighbor and his friend will perish."

For I have come to turn 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."

"And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death,

Therefore parents will eat children in the midst of you, and children will eat their parents, and I will execute judgment in you, and I will scatter your entire remnant to every wind.