50 Bible Verses about Dads

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.

Do not call anyone on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so they won’t become discouraged.

Grandchildren are the crown of the elderly,
and the pride of sons is their fathers.

Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.

And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

When they came to circumcise the child on the eighth day, they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.

The father of a righteous son will rejoice greatly,
and one who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

things we have heard and known
and that our fathers have passed down to us.

They will be divided, father against son,
son against father,
mother against daughter,
daughter against mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law,
and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,

The one who robs his father or mother
and says, “That’s no sin,”
is a companion to a man who destroys.

Then Shem and Japheth took a cloak and placed it over both their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father naked.

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.’ So he distributed the assets to them.

For you can have 10,000 instructors in Christ, but you can’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

Then brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and put them to death.

I will be a Father to you,
and you will be sons and daughters to Me,
says the Lord Almighty.

Furthermore, we had natural fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn’t we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?

Your sons will succeed your ancestors;
you will make them princes throughout the land.

I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

Look, every life belongs to Me. The life of the father is like the life of the son—both belong to Me. The person who sins is the one who will die.

He said:

Yahweh, the God of our ancestors, are You not the God who is in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can stand against You.

Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.

Now I say that as long as the heir is a child, he differs in no way from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

I have written to you, children,
because you have come to know the Father.
I have written to you, fathers,
because you have come to know
the One who is from the beginning.
I have written to you, young men,
because you are strong,
God’s word remains in you,
and you have had victory over the evil one.

Remember the days of old;
consider the years long past.
Ask your father, and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will teach you.

For ask the previous generation,
and pay attention to what their fathers discovered,

Now I am ready to come to you this third time. I will not burden you, for I am not seeking what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

I am writing to you, fathers,
because you have come to know
the One who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
because you have had victory over the evil one.

Listen, my sons, to a father’s discipline,
and pay attention so that you may gain understanding,

Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed,
and she bore him Aaron and Moses.
Amram lived 137 years.

The person who sins is the one who will die. A son won’t suffer punishment for the father’s iniquity, and a father won’t suffer punishment for the son’s iniquity. The righteousness of the righteous person will be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked person will be on him.

I have come in My Father’s name, yet you don’t accept Me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they have been since the beginning of creation.”

This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all

Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Now David was the son of the Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah named Jesse. Jesse had eight sons and during Saul’s reign was already an old man.

As a result, fathers will eat their sons within Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your survivors to every direction of the wind.

Solomon’s proverbs:

A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son, heartache to his mother.

as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep.

No one who denies the Son can have the Father; he who confesses the Son has the Father as well.

Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist,
but we bear their punishment.

Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons,
because of the iniquity of their fathers.
They will never rise up to possess a land
or fill the surface of the earth with cities.

A foolish son is grief to his father
and bitterness to the one who bore him.

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

say to a tree, “You are my father,”
and to a stone, “You gave birth to me.”
For they have turned their back to Me
and not their face,
yet in their time of disaster they beg,
“Rise up and save us!”