Bible Verses About Fathers (22+ Verses)

"Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him."

"You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord."

"My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights."

"Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged."

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."

"The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him."

"Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old."

"In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children."

"If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”"

"A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him."

"“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you."

"It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?"

"Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”"

"Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!"

"Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven."

"Then I said to you, “Don’t dread, neither be afraid of them. Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”"

"I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth."

"“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him."

"These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates."

"Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!"

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life."

"As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children, to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory."