but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.

Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.

If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death.

Then Samson’s father accompanied him to Timnah for the marriage. Samson hosted a party there, for this was customary for bridegrooms to do.

All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!

Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.

The one who robs his father and mother and says, “There is no transgression,” is a companion to the one who destroys.

The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.

Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another, in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors?

David praised the Lord before the entire assembly: “O Lord God of our father Israel, you deserve praise forevermore!

“Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer for his father’s iniquity?’ When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.

He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment.”

He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled what he promised my father David.

They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

“Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.

Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.