50 Bible Verses about Dads

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

Grandchildren are the crown of old men,
And the glory of sons is their fathers.

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

He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse.”

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to call him Zacharias, after his father.

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him.

Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction
And do not forsake your mother’s teaching;

He who robs his father or his mother
And says, “It is not a transgression,”
Is the companion of a man who destroys.

But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that falls to me.’ So he divided his wealth between them.

For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power,

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

“And I will be a father to you,
And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”
Says the Lord Almighty.

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?

In place of your fathers will be your sons;
You shall make them princes in all the earth.

I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father.”

Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine. The soul who sins will die.

and he said, “O Lord, the God of our fathers, are You not God in the heavens? And are You not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand so that no one can stand against You.

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

Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is owner of everything,

I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

“Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of all generations.
Ask your father, and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.

“Please inquire of past generations,
And consider the things searched out by their fathers.

Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.

Hear, O sons, the instruction of a father,
And give attention that you may gain understanding,

Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the length of Amram’s life was one hundred and thirty-seven years.

The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.

I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.”

For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

Now David was the son of the Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons. And Jesse was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years among men.

Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.

The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
It is we who have borne their iniquities.

“Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter
Because of the iniquity of their fathers.
They must not arise and take possession of the earth
And fill the face of the world with cities.”

A foolish son is a grief to his father
And bitterness to her who bore him.

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to Me,
And not their face;
But in the time of their trouble they will say,
‘Arise and save us.’