Bible Verses about “dads”
The Bible contains 33 verses about dads across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
“"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”
“Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.”
“Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.”
“and 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 up.”
“All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.”
“"But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.”
“for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.”
“These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;”
“If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh."”
“"He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”
“The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'”
“Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;”
“Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.”
“But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.”
“for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.”
“My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:”
“It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?”
“Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?”
“For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.”
“You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.”
“You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.”
“He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."”
“A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.”
“for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.”
“For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.”
“Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;”
“He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.”
“As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,”
“to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.”
“I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;”
“but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.”