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 man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, who is in heaven.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children is their fathers.

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

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will 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 Zachariah, after the name of his father.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy in 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 you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:

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

And 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 saw not their father's nakedness.

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

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

And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their descendants after them, and brought you out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.

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

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may 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, are not you God in heaven? and rule you not over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand you?

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 nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

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

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the findings of their fathers:

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

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

Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and 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, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

I am come in my Father's name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

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

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

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

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men, an old man in the days of Saul.

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

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

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

Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: [but] he that confesses the Son has the Father also.

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

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

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

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.