50 Bible Verses about Dads

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.

And give no man the name of father on earth: because one is your Father, who is in heaven.

Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.

And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name;

The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

They will be at war, the father against his son, and the son against his father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.

As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.

And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them.

For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.

And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all.

And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

Your children will take the place of your fathers; so that you may make them rulers over all the earth.

I came out from the Father and have come into the world: again, I go away from the world and go to the Father.

See, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so the soul of the son is mine: death will be the fate of the sinner's soul.

And said, O Lord, the God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? are you not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hands are power and strength so that no one is able to keep his place against you.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.

Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father.

Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she gave birth to Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

The soul which does sin will be put to death: the son will not be made responsible for the evil-doing of the father, or the father for the evil-doing of the son; the righteousness of the upright will be on himself, and the evil-doing of the evil-doer on himself.

I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.

Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.

For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah named Jesse, who had eight sons; and he was an old man in Saul's day, and far on in years.

For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Even as the Father has knowledge of me and I of the Father; and I am giving my life for the sheep.

He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.

Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.