42 Bible Verses about fatherhood

one God and father of all, which is above all, through all, and in you all.

for a righteous father is marvelous glad of a wise son, and delighteth in him.

which is father over all that is called father in heaven and in earth, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory,

And call ye no man your father upon the earth, for there is but one, your father, and he is in heaven.

If the son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father: will he give him a stone? Or if he ask fish, will he for a fish, give him a serpent?

To all you of Rome beloved of God, and saints by calling. Grace be with you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Woe be unto him that sayeth to his father, "Why begettest thou?" And to his mother, "Why bearest thou?"

And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not true toward God.

Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the LORD merciful unto them that fear him.

Neither judgeth the father any man: but hath committed all judgment unto the son,

Moreover, seeing we had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spiritual gifts that we might live?

I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

He shall turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, that I come not and smite the earth with cursing."

Unto Timothy, his natural son in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God our father, and from Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord.

What is now become of your forefathers and the prophets? Are they yet still alive?

He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.

"'I have showed also, how I took thee up being but a child, and gave thee a pleasant land for thine heritage; yea, and a goodly Host of the Heathen: and how I commanded thee, that thou shouldest call me Father only, and not to shrink from me.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven.

Nevertheless, thou shalt go unto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried when thou art of a good age:

If a man beget a hundredth children, and live many years, so that his days are many in number, and yet cannot enjoy his good, neither be buried: as for him I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

He shall call me, "Thou art my father, my God, and the strength of my salvation.'

Philip said unto him, "Lord, show us the father and it sufficeth us."

"I am. Behold, my covenant is with thee, that thou shalt be a father of many nations.

which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor yet of the will of man: but of God.

And now am I no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy father, keep in thine own name them which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are.

And if so be that ye call on the father, which without respect of person judgeth according to every man's works, see that ye pass the time of your pilgrimage in fear:

And he said unto them, "It is not for you to know the times, or the seasons which the father hath put in his own power:

I write unto you fathers, how that ye have known him that was from the beginning. I write unto you young men, how that ye have overcome the wicked. I write unto you young children, how that ye know the father.

And he said unto them, "How is it that ye sought me? Wist ye not that I must go about my father's business?"

And the father himself, which hath sent me, beareth witness of me. Ye have not heard his voice at any time; Nor yet have seen his shape.

We give thanks to God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you in our prayers,

Behold, all souls are mine. Like as the father is mine, so is the son mine also. The soul that sinneth, shall die.

See that ye despise not one of these little ones. For I say unto you, that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my father, which is in heaven.

O righteous father, the very world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast 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 unto him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said unto them, "If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the deeds of Abraham.

Then the LORD said unto Abram, "Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred; and out of thy father's house, into a land which I will show thee.

And 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.