42 Bible Verses about fatherhood

One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

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

From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

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

And which of you, being a father, will give a stone to his son, who makes request for bread? or for a fish, will give him a snake?

To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?

And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.

The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son;

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?

I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

For this cause I go down on my knees before the Father,

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.

To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.

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

Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

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.

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.

He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.

Philip said to him, Lord, let us see the Father, and we have need of nothing more.

As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

And now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one even as we are one.

And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.

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.

And he said to them, Why were you looking for me? was it not clear to you that my right place was in my Father's house?

And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.

We give praise to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, making prayer for you at all times,

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.

Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.

Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me;

In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?

In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.

Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.