40 Bible Verses about fatherhood

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

from whom every patriarchy in heavens and on earth is named.

And do not designate a father of you upon the earth, for one is your Father, he in the heavens.

And which father of you, if the son will ask a loaf, will give him a stone, or also if a fish, in place of a fish will give him a serpent?

To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, to the called, to the sanctified: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Woe to him who says to a father, What are thou begetting? or to a woman, With what are thou travailing?

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 pities his sons, So LORD pities those who fear him.

For neither does the Father judge any man, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

Besides, we indeed have had chastisers--the fathers of our flesh--and we were turned around. Shall we not much more be subordinate to the Father of the spirits, and we will live?

I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know.

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

And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

to Timothy, a genuine 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 forever?

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

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

Thus your light should shine before men, so that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father in the heavens.

But thou will go to thy fathers in peace; thou will be buried in a good old age.

If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

He shall cry to me, Thou are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

Philip says to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shall be the father of a multitude of nations.

who were begotten, not from blood, nor from a will of flesh, nor from a will of man, but from God.

And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name that thou have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we.

And if ye call on a Father, him who judges impartially according to each man's work, live the time of your sojourn in fear.

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

I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome evil. I write to you, children, because ye know the Father.

And he said to them, Why is it that ye were seeking me? Had ye not known that I must be among the things of my Father?

And the Father, he who sent me, has testified about me.Ye have neither heard his voice, nor have ever seen his appearance.

We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying about you,

Behold, all souls are mine, as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.

See that ye not disparage one of these little ones, for I say to you, that in the heavens their agents do always behold the face of my Father in the heavens.

And righteous Father, the world does not know thee, but I know thee, and these know that thou sent me.

In my Father's house are many dwellings, and if not, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

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.

Now LORD said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the 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.