32 Bible Verses about Fathers

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Proverbs 23:15-16

My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart; And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.

Psalm 45:16

Your children will take the place of your fathers; so that you may make them rulers over all the earth.

Zechariah 1:4

Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.

Genesis 9:22

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.

Job 8:8

Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

Psalm 78:3

Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

Genesis 15:15

As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

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Fathers » Duties of » Instruction of children

John 21:15

Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.

Deuteronomy 4:9

Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

Fathers » Duties of » The correction of children

Fathers » Duties of » To teach

Deuteronomy 6:20

And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?

Deuteronomy 21:19

Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;

Fathers » Duties of » To train

Isaiah 38:19

The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.

Lamentations 2:19

Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.

Fathers » Duties of » To nurture

Fathers » Duties of » To control

Fathers » Duties of » To provide for

Fathers » Good Fathers » Isaac blesses his son

Genesis 27:26-27

And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, my son, and give me a kiss. And he came near and gave him a kiss; and smelling the smell of his clothing, he gave him a blessing, and said, See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field on which the blessing of the Lord has come:

Fathers » Good Fathers » David gives Godly advice to his son, solomon

1 Kings 2:1-4

Now the time of David's death came near; and he gave orders to Solomon his son, saying, I am going the way of all the earth: so be strong and be a man; And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go, read more.
So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

Fathers » Good Fathers » Abraham exerts a spiritual influence upon his family

Fathers » Good Fathers » Jacob commands his household to put away idols

Fathers » Good Fathers » Manoah prays for instruction in regard to his coming child

Judges 13:8

Then Manoah made prayer to the Lord, and said, O Lord, let the man of God whom you sent come to us again and make clear to us what we are to do for the child who is to come.

Fathers » Good Fathers » Cornelius, the head of a religious household

Fathers » Good Fathers » Zacharias, the Godly father of john the baptist

Luke 1:67

And his father, Zacharias, was full of the Holy Spirit, and with the voice of a prophet said these words:

Fathers » Duties of » To love

Fathers » God

Deuteronomy 4:1

And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

Exodus 3:13

And Moses said to God, When I come to the children of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you: and they say to me, What is his name? what am I to say to them?

Deuteronomy 1:11

May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!

Joshua 18:3

Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?

2 Chronicles 28:9

But a prophet of the Lord was there, named Oded; and he went out in front of the army which was coming into Samaria and said to them, Truly, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them up into your hands, and you have put them to death in an outburst of wrath stretching up to heaven.

More verses: 2 Chronicles 29:5

Fathers » Examples of fathers' love » David

2 Samuel 18:5

And the king gave orders to Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Because of me, be gentle to the young man Absalom. And this order about Absalom was given in the hearing of all the people.

2 Samuel 12:16

So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night.

2 Samuel 13:39

And the heart of David was wasted with desire for Absalom: for he was comforted for the death of Amnon.

Fathers » Examples of fathers' love » jacob

Genesis 37:35

And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

Genesis 42:38

And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.

Genesis 46:30

And Israel said to Joseph, Now that I have seen you living again, I am ready for death.

Fathers » Examples of fathers' love » Jairus

Mark 5:23

And made strong prayers to him, saying, My little daughter is near to death: it is my prayer that you will come and put your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and have life.

Fathers » Examples of fathers' love » Laban

Genesis 31:28

You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.

Fathers » Examples of fathers' love » Father of the prodigal

Love » Fathers » David

2 Samuel 18:5

And the king gave orders to Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Because of me, be gentle to the young man Absalom. And this order about Absalom was given in the hearing of all the people.

2 Samuel 12:16

So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night.

2 Samuel 13:39

And the heart of David was wasted with desire for Absalom: for he was comforted for the death of Amnon.

Love » Fathers » jacob

Genesis 37:35

And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

Genesis 42:38

And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.

Genesis 46:30

And Israel said to Joseph, Now that I have seen you living again, I am ready for death.

Love » Fathers » Jairus

Mark 5:23

And made strong prayers to him, saying, My little daughter is near to death: it is my prayer that you will come and put your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and have life.

Love » Fathers » Laban

Genesis 31:28

You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.

Love » Fathers » Father of the prodigal

Parents » Fathers

Topics on Fathers

Fathers Birthday

Matthew 14:6

But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias was dancing before them, and Herod was pleased with her.

Fathers In Laws

Exodus 3:1

Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Fathers, Sin Of The

Exodus 34:6-7

And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

God Of The Fathers

Acts 7:32

I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.

Sins Of The Fathers

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.

Spiritual Fathers

1 Corinthians 4:15

For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.

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