43 Bible Verses about Fathers Love

See what marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon us--that we should be called God's children: and that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us--because it has not known Him.

for the Father Himself holds you dear, because you have held me dear and have believed that I came from the Father's presence.

As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.

God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him.

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.

and one God and Father of all, who rules over all, acts through all, and dwells in all.

and you shall be My sons and daughters,' says the Lord the Ruler of all."

If you then, imperfect as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

"If God were your Father," said Jesus, "you would love me; for it is from God that I came and I am now here. I have not come of myself, but *He* sent me.

And we have seen and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again I am leaving the world and am going to the Father."

I and the Father are one."

Grace, mercy and peace will be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

"You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am.

For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down my life in order to receive it back again.

You however are to be complete in goodness, as your Heavenly Father is complete.

I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one; that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou hast loved me.

We love because God first loved us.

He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.

The Father loves the Son and has entrusted everything to His hands.

"Father, those whom Thou hast given me--I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see the glory--my glory--my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because Thou didst love me before the creation of the world.

And I have made known Thy name to them and will make it known, that the love with which Thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."

Peace be to the brethren, and love combined with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."

I have come as my Father's representative, and you do not receive me. If some one else comes representing only himself, him you will receive.

Any one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and any one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

Honour thy father and thy mother'; and 'Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thyself.'"

And they will do these things because they have failed to recognize the Father and to discover who I am.

By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.

although He knew that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was now going to God,

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father;

Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James: To those who are in God the Father, enfolded in His love, and kept for Jesus Christ, and called.

but I know you well, and I know that in your hearts you do not really love God.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father loves also Him who is the Father's Child.

No one who disowns the Son has the Father. He who acknowledges the Son has also the Father.

Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.

He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine, but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.

Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?

At that time you will make your requests in my name; and I do not promise to ask the Father on your behalf,

Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.

And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him.

"If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.