Bible Verses About Fatherhood

Bible Verses About Fatherhood highlight the sacred responsibility and blessing of being a father. The Bible provides guidance, encouragement, and wisdom for fathers as they lead, protect, and nurture their families in love and faith. These scriptures reflect God’s role as our Heavenly Father, offering a perfect example of patience, strength, and compassion. Let these verses inspire and equip fathers to embrace their calling, building a legacy of faith and love for generations to come.

Bible Verses About Fatherhood

1 – Proverbs 22:6 – Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

2 – Ephesians 6:4 – Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

3 – Colossians 3:21 – Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

4 – Psalm 103:13 – As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

5 – Proverbs 20:7 – The righteous who walks in his integrity—blessed are his children after him!

6 – Deuteronomy 6:6-7 – And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

7 – Joshua 24:15 – But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

8 – 3 John 1:4 – I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

9 – Proverbs 13:24 – Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

10 – Hebrews 12:7 – It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

11 – Psalm 127:3-5 – Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!

12 – Malachi 4:6 – And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.

13 – 1 Timothy 3:4 – He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive.

14 – Genesis 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice.

15 – Proverbs 4:1 – Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight.

16 – Proverbs 23:24 – The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

17 – Luke 11:11-13 – What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent… If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!

18 – 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 – For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God.

19 – Proverbs 19:18 – Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

20 – Exodus 20:12 – Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

21 – Deuteronomy 1:31 – In the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.

22 – Psalm 68:5 – Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

23 – Matthew 7:9-11 – Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? …If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

24 – 2 Corinthians 6:18 – And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.

25 – Isaiah 64:8 – But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

26 – Proverbs 1:8 – Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

27 – Proverbs 15:5 – A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

28 – Job 1:5 – And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all.

29 – Psalm 78:5-6 – He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children.

30 – Luke 15:20 – But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

31 – John 14:23 – Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”

32 – 2 Samuel 7:14-15 – I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son… but my steadfast love will not depart from him.

33 – Romans 8:15 – For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

34 – Galatians 4:6 – And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

35 – James 1:17 – Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights.

36 – Isaiah 9:6 – For to us a child is born… and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

37 – Deuteronomy 32:6 – Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?

38 – Proverbs 10:1 – A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

39 – Ecclesiastes 12:1 – Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come.

40 – 1 Chronicles 29:17 – I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness.

41 – Jeremiah 3:19 – I said, ‘How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land…’ and I thought you would call me, ‘My Father.’

42 – Matthew 6:26 – Look at the birds of the air… your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

43 – Proverbs 17:6 – Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

44 – Matthew 23:9 – And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

45 – Romans 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith… to be the father of all who believe.

46 – Isaiah 40:11 – He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms.

47 – 1 Corinthians 16:14 – Let all that you do be done in love.

48 – 1 Peter 5:7 – Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

49 – Psalm 32:8 – I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.

50 – Hebrews 11:7 – By faith Noah… in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household.

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