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 righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

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

And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, even he who is in heaven.

And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?

To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be'saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Woe unto him that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With what travailest thou?

And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

Like as a father pitieth his children, So Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.

For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto the Son;

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

I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,

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.

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

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

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.

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

Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

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

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.

Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations.

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

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

And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:

And he said unto them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority.

I write unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil one. I have written unto you, little children, because ye know the Father.

And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? knew ye not that I must be in my Father's house?

And the Father that sent me, he hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

We give thanks to God the 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 sinneth, it shall die.

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

O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;

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

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

Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the 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. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.