21 Bible Verses about Fathers And Sons

Grandchildren are the crowns of old men. Fathers take pride in their children.

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers and bring them together again before I come and strike the earth with destruction (a curse).

He will go before God in the spirit and power of Elijah. He will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness. This will make ready a people whose hearts have been directed to Jehovah (YHWH). (Malachi 3:1)

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice and he who gives birth to a wise child will receive joy from him.

A wise son makes a father glad: but a foolish son is sorrow (depression) (grief) for his mother.

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

He who loves wisdom makes his father rejoice. But he who keeps company with fornicators wastes his wealth.

A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who accepts discipline is prudent.

He who gives birth to a fool does it to his sorrow because the father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish (stupid) son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

A foolish son is a disgrace to his father. A contentious wife is like drips from a leaky roof.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.

God deals with you like children. Endure discipline (instruction) (training). Who is the child whom a father does not discipline?

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

What father would give his son a stone when he asked for a loaf? What father would give a serpent when his son asked for a fish?

The life of every person belongs to me. The life of the father as well as the life of the son is mine. The person who sins will die.

Therefore, Jehovah says: I am laying stumbling blocks before this people. They will stumble against them, Fathers and sons together; Neighbors and friends will perish.

My coming will cause a separation. A man will be 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 her mother; mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law against her mother in law.

People will hand over their brothers to be put to death. Parents will oppose children and children will oppose parents, causing them to be put to death.

Fathers will eat their sons among you and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter your entire remnant to every wind.'