23 Bible Verses about Dads

"and call no one 'Father' on earth, for One is your Father in heaven.

Fathers, do not harass your children, lest you make them spiritless.

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

and came on the eighth day to circumcise the child. They were about to call him "Zachariah," after his father,

"father against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

"The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of your property which is coming to me.' So he divided his means among them.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ Jesus, you can have but one father. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise up against their parents, and have them put to death.

then I will receive you and will be to you a Father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Furthermore, our earthly fathers used to discipline us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world. again, I am leaving the world, and am going to the Father."

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

What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;

I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One.

And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have fully overcome the Evil One. I have written to you, little children, because you have learned to know the father.

"I am come in the name of my Father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

and say, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the day that our fathers fell asleep everything continues as it was from the beginning of the creation."

This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham's posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,

And you fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up in the nature and admonition of the Lord.

just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father; but he who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you.

"If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.