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 who fathers a wise child shall have joy from him.

of whom the whole family in Heaven and earth is named,

And call no one your father on the earth, for One is your Father in Heaven.

For what father of you, if the son asks for bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake for a fish?

to all those who 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 who says to his father, What are you fathering? Or to the woman, What are you laboring over?

and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful with God.

As a father pities his children, Jehovah pities those who fear Him.

For the Father judges no man, but has 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 did not know, 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 sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, that I not come and strike the earth with utter destruction.

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 forever?

In His holy dwelling God is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows.

But I said, How shall I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance among the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call Me, My Father, and shall not turn away from Me.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is the sorrow 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 you shall go to your fathers in peace. You shall be buried in a good old age.

If a man fathers a hundred, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also is for him no burial; I say, a miscarriage is better than he.

He shall cry to Me, My Father, You are my God, and the rock of my salvation.

Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.

As for Me, behold! My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

who were born, not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but were born of God.

And now I am in the world no longer, but these are in the world, and I come to You, Holy Father. Keep them in Your name, those whom You have given Me, so that they may be one as We are.

And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, pass the time of your earthly residence in fear,

And He said to them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own authority.

I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.

And He said to them, Why did you look for Me? Do you not know that I must be about My Father's business?

And He sending Me, the Father Himself, has borne witness of Me. Neither have you 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, also the soul of the son, they are Mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.

Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that in Heaven their angels always behold the face of My Father in Heaven.

O righteous Father, indeed the world has not known You; but I have known You, and these have known that You have 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 answered them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

And Jehovah said to Abram, Go out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house into a land that I will show you.

And He said, I am the God of your fathers, 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.