50 Bible Verses about Dads

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's privities, and told his two brethren that were without.

And call ye no man your father upon the earth, for there is but one, your father, and he is in heaven.

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be of a desperate mind.

Children's children are a crown of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.

And so David rested with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

He shall turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, that I come not and smite the earth with cursing."

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father, ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning; And abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, then speaketh he of his own. For he is a liar, and the father thereof.

And it fortuned, the eighth day they came to circumcise the child: and called his name Zacharias after the name of his father,

for a righteous father is marvelous glad of a wise son, and delighteth in him.

which we have heard and known, and such as 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."

Nevertheless, thou shalt go unto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried when thou art of a good age:

My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Who so robbeth his father and mother, and sayeth it is no sin; the same is like unto a murderer.

And Shem and Japheth took a mantle, and put it on both their shoulders and went backward, and covered their father's secrets, but their faces were backward, so that they saw not their father's nakedness.

and the younger of them said to his father, father, give me my part of the goods that to me belongeth. And he divided unto them his substance.

For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ: yet have ye not many fathers. 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 with his presence and with his mighty power of Egypt:

Yea, and the brother shall deliver the brother to death. And the father the son, and the children shall rise against their fathers and mothers, and shall put them to death.

and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be unto me sons and daughters," saith the Lord almighty.

Moreover, seeing we had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spiritual gifts that we might live?

Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children, whom thou mayest make princes in all lands.

"I went out from the father, and came into the world: and I leave the world again, and go to the father."

Behold, all souls are mine. Like as the father is mine, so is the son mine also. The soul that sinneth, shall die.

and said, "LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven, and reignest not thou on all the kingdoms of the heathen? And in thine hand is power and might, that no man can stand before thee.

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

And I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth not from a servant; though he be lord of all,

I write unto you fathers, how that ye have known him that was from the beginning. I write unto you young men, how that ye be strong; and the word of God dwelleth in you, that ye have overcome the wicked.

Remember the days that are past: consider the years from time to time. Ask thy father and he will show thee; thine elders, and they will tell thee.

"Enquire, I pray thee, of them that have been before thee; and search diligently among thy forefathers.

Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children.

I write unto you fathers, how that ye have known him that was from the beginning. I write unto you young men, how that ye have overcome the wicked. I write unto you young children, how that ye know the father.

Hear, O ye children, the fatherly exhortation, and take good heed, that ye may learn wisdom.

And Amram took Jochebed his niece to wife which bare him Aaron and Moses. And Amram lived a hundred and thirty seven years.

The soul that sinneth, she shall die. The son shall not bear part of the father's wickedness. The righteousness of the right shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

I am come in my father's name, and ye receive me not. If another shall come in his own name, him will ye receive.

and say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers died all things continue in the same estate wherein they were at the beginning."

Therefore by faith is the inheritance given, that it might come of favour: and that the promise might be sure to all the seed. Not to them only which are of the law: but also to them which are of the faith of Abraham, which is the father of us all.

And ye fathers, move not your children to wrath: but bring them up with the nurture and information of the Lord.

If a man beget a hundredth children, and live many years, so that his days are many in number, and yet cannot enjoy his good, neither be buried: as for him I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

And this David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, named Jesse; which Jesse had eight sons, and was an old man in the days of Saul among the people.

For in thee the fathers shall be fain to eat their own sons, and the sons their own fathers. Such a court will I keep in thee, and the whole remnant will I scatter into all the winds.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.

As my father knoweth me: even so know I my father. And I give my life for the sheep,

Whosoever denieth the son, the same hath not the father.

Our fathers, which now are gone, have sinned; and we must bear their wickedness.

There shall a way be sought to destroy their children, for their fathers' wickedness: They shall not rise up again to possess the land, and fill the world full of castles and towns.

An indiscreet son is a grief unto his father; and a heaviness unto his mother that bare him.

"If a man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, moreover and his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

For they say to a stock, 'Thou art my father,' and to a stone, 'Thou hast begotten me.' Yea, they have turned their back upon me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble, when they say, 'Stand up and help us!'