42 Bible Verses about fatherhood

One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

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

Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father who is in heaven.

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he shall ask a fish, will 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 to him that saith to his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

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 steadfast with God.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

For the Father judgeth no man; but hath committed all judgment to the Son:

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?

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

For this cause 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 Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ 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 shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

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

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

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

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.

He shall cry to me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

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

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

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

And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thy own name those whom thou hast given to me, that they may be one, as we are.

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

And he said to them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

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, How is it that ye sought me? knew ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

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

We give thanks to God and 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.

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

O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

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

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

Now the LORD had said to Abram, Depart from thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to a 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.