Quotes about Fathers
both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”
- Isaiah 65:7
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
- Jeremiah 2:5
From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.
- Jeremiah 3:24
For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
- Jeremiah 7:22
From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.
- Jeremiah 7:25
We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
- Jeremiah 14:20
For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:
- Jeremiah 16:3
And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
- Jeremiah 16:12
So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
- Jeremiah 16:13
The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.
- Jeremiah 25:5
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 31:32
You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,
- Jeremiah 32:18