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17 Bible Verses About Fathers and Sons

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Summary

  • Proverbs addresses its teaching to “my son”, and Proverbs 1:8 and 6:20 set the father’s instruction beside the mother’s teaching.
  • Proverbs 4:3-4 quotes the father’s own father, so the instruction in that chapter crosses three generations.
  • Hebrews 12:5-6 quotes Proverbs 3:11-12 and argues that God disciplines his people as a father disciplines a son, for their good.
  • Ephesians 6:4 and Colossians 3:21 tell fathers not to exasperate or embitter their children.
  • Malachi 4:6 promises that Elijah will turn the hearts of parents and children to each other, and Luke 1:17 applies that work to John the Baptist.

The Bible speaks to fathers and sons most directly in Proverbs, where a father addresses his son as “my son”. The same relationship carries the teaching on discipline in Proverbs 3 and Hebrews 12, and the command to pass on the faith in Deuteronomy 6. Other passages turn to a father’s joy in a wise son (Proverbs 23:24) and the father in Jesus’ parable who runs to meet his lost son (Luke 15:20). Several also mention the mother (Proverbs 1:8,…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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