21 Bible Verses about Fathers And Sons

Grandchildren are the crown of old men,
And the glory of sons is their fathers.

He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse.”

It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him.

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

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

A man who loves wisdom makes his father glad,
But he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth.

A fool rejects his father’s discipline,
But he who regards reproof is sensible.

He who sires a fool does so to his 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 destruction to his father,
And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.

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 endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?

Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine. The soul who sins will die.

Therefore, thus says the Lord,
“Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people.
And they will stumble against them,
Fathers and sons together;
Neighbor and friend will perish.”

For I came 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 daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.