Bible verses about Fathers
Verses about fathers, their calling to teach and lead, and the Father who is over all.
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Exodus 20:12These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
Deuteronomy 6:6And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 6:7As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
Psalms 103:13My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
Proverbs 3:11for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 3:12He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
Proverbs 13:24Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.
Proverbs 17:6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
Proverbs 23:24And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
Malachi 4:6So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.
Matthew 6:9So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
Luke 15:20Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
Colossians 3:21Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
Hebrews 12:7Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
James 1:17Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
1 John 3:1