Quotes About Fathers

then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”

I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ëObey My voice.í

I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.í”

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.

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.í

therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.

The prophets told you, ëTurn 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.

For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.í”

“In those days, it will no longer be said: ëThe fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.í

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,

because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.

Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and of the kings of Judah and their wives, as well as the wickedness that you and your wives committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ëWe are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.í

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ëThe fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edgeí?

Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Confront them with the abominations of their fathers

In the wilderness I said to their children: ëDo not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?

Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.

Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land that I swore to give your fathers.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.