42 Bible Verses about fatherhood

one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.

The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise son shall have joy of him:

of whom every family in the heavens and on earth is named,

And call not any one your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, he who is in the heavens.

But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and the father shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?

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

Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? Or to his mother, What hast thou brought forth?

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

As a father pitieth his children, so Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.

for neither does the Father judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son;

Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;

For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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.

to Timotheus, my true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our 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.

And as for me, I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee the pleasant land, the goodly inheritance of the hosts of the nations? And I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from following me.

The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

Let your light thus shine before men, so that they may see your upright 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 beget a hundred sons, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.

He shall call unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation;

Philip says to him, Lord, shew us the Father and it suffices us.

It is I: behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.

who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of God.

And I am no longer 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 as we.

And if ye invoke as Father him who, without regard of persons, judges according to the work of each, pass your time of sojourn in fear,

And he said to them, It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father has placed in his own authority;

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.

And he said to them, Why is it that ye have sought me? did ye not know that I ought to be occupied in my Father's business?

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

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

Behold, all the 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 do not despise one of these little ones; for I say unto you that their angels in the heavens continually behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens.

Righteous Father, and 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 there are many abodes; were it not so, I had told you: for I go to prepare you a place;

They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham;

And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will shew thee.

And 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 at God.