20 Bible Verses about Fathers
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If then we have had the fathers of our flesh for correctors, and reverenced them; shall we not much more be under subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
"Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with a promise;)
From Thematic Bible
Fathers » Duties of » Instruction of children
When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him, Yes, Lord! thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him, Feed my lambs.
Fathers » Duties of » The correction of children
Fathers » Duties of » To teach
Fathers » Duties of » To train
Fathers » Duties of » To nurture
And, ye fathers, exasperate not your children: but educate them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
Parents, irritate not your children, lest their spirit be broken.
Fathers » Duties of » To control
presiding over his own family with propriety, having his children under subjection with all gravity of behaviour:
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ordering well their children and their own families.
Fathers » Duties of » To provide for
Lo! I hold myself ready the third time to come unto you, and I will not burden you; for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up treasure for their parents, but the parents for the children.
Fathers » Good Fathers » Isaac blesses his son
Fathers » Good Fathers » David gives Godly advice to his son, solomon
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
Fathers » Good Fathers » Cornelius, the head of a religious household
a man of piety, and who feared God with all his house, giving much alms to the people, and praying to God continually.
Fathers » Good Fathers » Zacharias, the Godly father of john the baptist
And Zacharias his father was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,
Fathers » Duties of » To love
that they instruct the young women to be discreet, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Fathers » God
Fathers » Examples of fathers' love » David
Fathers » Examples of fathers' love » jacob
Fathers » Examples of fathers' love » Jairus
And immediately the father of the child said with tears, I believe, Lord! help my unbelief!
and entreated him importunately, saying, My little daughter is at the last gasp; wilt thou come, and lay thy hands upon her, that she may recover, and she shall live.
Fathers » Examples of fathers' love » Laban
Fathers » Examples of fathers' love » Father of the prodigal
And he arose and came to his father. But when he was yet at a considerable distance, his father discovered him, and was moved with compassion, and running, fell on his neck, and kissed him again and again.
Love » Fathers » David
Love » Fathers » jacob
Love » Fathers » Jairus
And immediately the father of the child said with tears, I believe, Lord! help my unbelief!
and entreated him importunately, saying, My little daughter is at the last gasp; wilt thou come, and lay thy hands upon her, that she may recover, and she shall live.
Love » Fathers » Laban
Love » Fathers » Father of the prodigal
And he arose and came to his father. But when he was yet at a considerable distance, his father discovered him, and was moved with compassion, and running, fell on his neck, and kissed him again and again.
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Absent Fathers
1 Timothy 5:8But if any man provide not for his own relations, and especially for those more immediately of his own family, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Examples Of Fathers' Love
Ephesians 6:4And, ye fathers, exasperate not your children: but educate them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
Fathers And Daughters
Luke 12:53The father shall take part against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the step-mother against her daughter-in-law, and the son's wife against her mother-in-law.
Fathers And Sons
Luke 1:17And he shall go forth before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to convert the hearts of fathers with their children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people ready for the Lord.
Fathers Birthday
Matthew 14:6But when Herod's birth-day was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the circle, and pleased Herod:
Fathers In Laws
John 18:13and led him away to Annas first; for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was the high-priest of that year.
Fathers Love
1 John 3:1BEHOLD, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God! therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Fathers Loving Care
Ephesians 6:4And, ye fathers, exasperate not your children: but educate them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
Fathers Responsibilities
John 6:40And this is the will of him that sent me, That every one who seeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have life eternal: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Fathers, Examples Of
Luke 1:5-20There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abiah: and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elisabeth.
Fathers, Responsibilities Of
Matthew 7:9-11What man is there of you, of whom if his son ask a loaf, will he give him a stone?
Fathers, Sin Of The
Luke 1:50And his mercy is upon those who fear him, from generation to generation.
God Of The Fathers
Acts 7:32"I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Then Moses trembling, dared not to look farther.
Sins Of The Fathers
Luke 6:23Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy; for, lo! your reward is great in heaven: for after the same manner did your fathers to the prophets.
Spiritual Fathers
1 Corinthians 4:15For though ye may have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus through the Gospel I have begotten you.
The Joy Of Fathers
Philippians 4:1WHEREFORE, my brethren, beloved, and very dear to me, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, O beloved.
