21 Bible Verses about Fathers And Sons

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

And he hath turned back the heart of fathers to sons, And the heart of sons to their fathers, Before I come and have utterly smitten the land!

and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'

The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son is an affliction to his mother.

A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

A man loving wisdom rejoiceth his father, And a friend of harlots destroyeth wealth.

A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.

Whoso is begetting a fool hath affliction for it, Yea, the father of a fool rejoiceth not.

A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?

Lo, all the souls are Mine, As the soul of the father, So also the soul of the son -- they are Mine, The soul that is sinning -- it doth die.

Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I do give to this people stumbling blocks, And stumbled against them have fathers and sons together, The neighbour and his friend do perish.

for I came to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'

'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

Therefore fathers do eat sons in thy midst, And sons eat their fathers, And I have done in thee judgments, And have scattered all thy remnant to every wind.