42 Bible Verses about fatherhood

one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all, and in you all.

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

(of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named),

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

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints; ye have grace and peace of God our Father and of the Lord Jesus, the Christ.

Woe unto him that says unto his father, Why dost thou beget? or to the woman, Why hast thou brought forth?

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Like as a father has mercy upon his children, so the LORD has mercy upon those that fear him.

For the Father judges no man but has committed all judgment unto the Son

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?

I was a father to the needy; and the cause which I did not know I searched out.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

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.

unto Timothy, true son in the faith, Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

A father of the fatherless and a defender of the widows is God in his holy habitation.

But I said, How shall I place thee as sons and give thee the desirable land, the heritage that the hosts of Gentiles desire? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father, and shalt not turn away from following me.

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

Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

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

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.

He shall call me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my saving health.

Philip said unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it will suffice us.

Behold my covenant with thee: Thou shalt be a father of many Gentiles.

who are not born of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, those whom thou hast given me, keep them in thy name, that they may be one, as we are.

And if ye invoke as Father, he who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, converse in fear the entire time of your sojourning here,

And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put under his authority only.

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.

And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? Knew ye not that it behooves me to be about my Father's business?

And the Father himself, who has sent me, has borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his appearance.

We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you

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.

Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in the heavens their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens.

O righteous Father, the world has not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

In my Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said unto them, If ye were Abraham's sons, ye would do the works of Abraham.

But the LORD had said unto Abram, Depart out of thy country and from thy nature and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee;

Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses covered his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.