50 Bible Verses about Dads

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren outside.

And call no one your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens.

Fathers, provoke not your children lest they become disheartened.

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

And David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.

and he shall convert the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with destruction.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father ye desire to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

And it came to pass that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they called him Zacharias after the name of his father.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begets a wise child shall have joy with him.

which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

The father shall be divided against the son and the son against the father, the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother, the mother-in-law against her daughter- in-law and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

My son, hearken unto the chastening of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Whosoever robs his father or his mother and says, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of the destroyer.

Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of the estate that falls to me. And he divided unto them his living.

For though ye may have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye shall not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

And because he loved thy fathers, therefore, he chose their seed after them and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt,

Now the brother shall deliver the brother unto death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents and shall kill them.

and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; is it not much better to be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy sons, whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth.

I came forth from the Father and am come into the world; again, I leave the world and go to the Father.

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine; the soul that sins, it shall die.

and said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in the heavens and dost thou not rule in all the kingdoms of the Gentiles? Is there not power and might in thy hand so that no one is able to withstand thee?

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Now I say That the heir, as long as he is a child differs in nothing from a slave, though he be lord of all,

I have written unto you, fathers, that ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, that ye are strong and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee;

Ask, I pray thee, of the former age, and be willing to enquire of thy fathers regarding them;

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not your things, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

I write unto you, fathers, that ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, that ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, that ye have known the Father.

Hearken, ye sons, unto the chastening of the father, and pay attention that ye might know understanding.

And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were one hundred thirty-seven years.

The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him who is righteous, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him who is wicked.

I have come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the day in which the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Therefore by faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

If a man begets a hundred sons and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his soul is not filled with good and also that he have no burial; I say that an aborted birth is better than he.

And David was the son of an Ephrathite man of Bethlehem of Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons, and this man was old in the days of Saul and of advanced age among men.

For the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee I will scatter into all the winds.

A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is sadness unto his mother.

As the Father knows me, even so I know the Father, and I lay down my soul for the sheep.

Whosoever denies the Son, the same does not have the Father. Whosoever confesses the Son, has the Father also.

Our fathers have sinned and are dead; and we have borne their chastisements.

Prepare slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

The foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bore him.

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

saying to a piece of firewood, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they say, Arise and deliver us.