Proverbs 17:21
"He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy."
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- Proverbs 10:1
"The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 19:13
"A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping."
Read in chapter → - 1 Samuel 2:32
"And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 23:15
"My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 26:34
"And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 17:25
"A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 15:20
"A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother."
Read in chapter → - 3 John 1:4
"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 18:33
"And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!"
Read in chapter → - Philemon 1:19
"I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides."
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