21 Bible Verses about Fathers And Sons

Children's children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

And he shall go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to walk in the wisdom of the just; to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him .

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; But he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth his'substance.

A fool despiseth his father's correction; But he that regardeth reproof getteth prudence.

He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.

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

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

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.

For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law:

They shall 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.

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

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on thee; and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter unto all the winds.