50 Bible Verses about Dads

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

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.

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, he speaketh 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 Zacharias, after the name of his father.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

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

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

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

He that robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, 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 falleth to me. And he divided to them his living.

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

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

And I will be a Father to you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith 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 to the Father of spirits, and live?

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest 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 sinneth, it shall die.

And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest thou not over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thy hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

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

Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he is lord of all;

I have written to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

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

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search 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 to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

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

And Amram took him Jochebed, his father's sister, for a wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.

The soul that sinneth, 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 ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye 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 seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all;

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

If a man begetteth a hundred children, and liveth many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he hath no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

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

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

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

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

Whoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

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

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they may 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 cometh to me, and hateth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: 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.