21 Bible Verses about Fathers And Sons

Sons of sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, that I not come and strike the earth with utter destruction.

And he shall 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 a people prepared for the Lord.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice; and he who fathers a wise child shall have joy from him.

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

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

Whoever loves wisdom rejoices his father; but a companion of harlots wastes wealth.

A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who listens to correction is wise.

He who fathers a fool does it to his sorrow; 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 the quarreling of a wife is a never-ending dripping.

And fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

For what father of you, if the son asks for bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake for a fish?

Behold, all souls are Mine. As the soul of the father, also the soul of the son, they are Mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.

Therefore so says Jehovah, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.

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

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. And the children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death.

So the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments in you, and I will scatter the whole remnant of you into all the winds.