21 Bible Verses about Fathers And Sons

Grandchildren are like a crown to the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment."

And he will go as forerunner before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but whoever associates with prostitutes wastes his wealth.

A fool rejects his father's discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.

Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.

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

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

What father among you, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

Indeed! All lives are mine -- the life of the father as well as the life of the son is mine. The one who sins will die.

So, this is what the Lord says: 'I will assuredly make these people stumble to their doom. Parents and children will stumble and fall to their destruction. Friends and neighbors will die.'

For I have come to set a man against his father, 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 hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.