Fathers Bible Verses

These fathers bible verses can be used for Father's Day greeting cards, for sermons, or even for a bible study about the role of fathers in their families.

This list of bible verses about fathers shows that God holds fatherhood in high esteem but also challenges dads to be more than they can be on their own.

Fathers Bible Verses from Genesis

Genesis 2:24
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family. (NET)

Genesis 49:26
The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the eternal mountains or the desirable things of the age-old hills. (NET)

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Fathers Bible Verses from Exodus

Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you. (NET)

Exodus 20:15
Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death. (NET)

Exodus 21:17
Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death. (NET)

Fathers Bible Verses from Leviticus

Leviticus 19:3
Each of you must respect his mother and his father. (NET)

Leviticus 20:9
If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself. (NET)

Fathers Bible Verses from Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. (NIV)

Deuteronomy 21:18-19
If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail, his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city. (NET)

Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother. (NET)

Deuteronomy 32:6
Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your creator? He has made you and established you. (NET)

Fathers Bible Verses from Psalms

Psalm 27:10
Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the Lord would take me in. (NET)

Psalm 68:5
He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. (NET)

Psalm 89:26
He will call out to me, ‘You are my father, my God, and the protector who delivers me. (NET)

Psalm 103:13
As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on his faithful followers. (NET)

Fathers Bible Verses from Proverbs

Proverbs 1:8
Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. (NIV)

Proverbs 3:12
the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in. (NIV)

Proverbs 6:20-23
My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching. Bind them upon your heart forever; fasten them around your neck. When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you. For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life. (NIV)

Proverbs 10:1
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother. (NIV)

Proverbs 15:20
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother. (NIV)

Proverbs 17:21
To have a fool for a son brings grief; there is no joy for the father of a fool. (NIV)

Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the one who bore him. (NIV)

Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is his father's ruin. (NIV)

Proverbs 19:26
He who robs his father and drives out his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace. (NIV)

Proverbs 20:20
If a man curses his father or mother, his lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness. (NIV)

Proverbs 23:22
Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. (NIV)

Proverbs 23:24-25
The father of a righteous man has great joy; he who has a wise son delights in him. May your father and mother be glad; may she who gave you birth rejoice!(NIV)

Proverbs 28:24
He who robs his father or mother and says, "It's not wrong"— he is partner to him who destroys. (NIV)

Proverbs 29:3
A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father. (NIV)

Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks a father, that scorns obedience to a mother, will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley, will be eaten by the vultures. (NIV)

Fathers Bible Verses from Isaiah

Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (NIV)

Isaiah 63:16
But you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us or Israel acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name. (NIV)

Isaiah 64:8
O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. (NIV)

Fathers Bible Verses from the Prophets

Ezekiel 18:5
All lives are mine – the life of the father as well as the life of the son is mine. (NET)

Malachi 1:6
A son naturally honors his father. (NET)

Fathers Bible Verses from Matthew

Matthew 7:11
If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! (NET)

Matthew 10:35
For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. (NET)

Matthew 10:37
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. (NET)

Matthew 15:4
For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death. (NIV)

Matthew 19:5
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. (NIV)

Matthew 19:18
Honor your father and mother. (NIV)

Matthew 19:29
everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. (NIV)

Fathers Bible Verses from Mark

Mark 7:10
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’ (NET)

Mark 10:19
Honor your father and mother. (NET)

Fathers Bible Verses from Luke

Luke 11:11
What father among you, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish? (NET)

Luke 12:32
Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom. (NET)

Luke 12:53
They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law. (NET)

Luke 14:26
If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. (NET)

Luke 15:20
So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him. (NET)

Luke 18:20
Honor your father and mother. (NET)

Fathers Bible Verses from Paul

Romans 4:17
I have made you the father of many nations. (NET)

2 Corinthians 6:18
I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the All-Powerful Lord. (NET)

Ephesians 5:31
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. (NET)

Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother"—which is the first commandment with a promise— "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth. (NIV)

Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. (NIV)

Philippians 2:22
But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel. (NET)

1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children. (NET)

1 Timothy 5:1
Do not address an older man harshly but appeal to him as a father. (NET)

Fathers Bible Verses from the General Epistles

Hebrews 12:7
Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? (NIV)

1 John 5:1
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. (NIV)

Fathers Bible Verses Conclusion

There are hundreds of other verses that talk about fathers. Most, however, are either in lists of genealogy or refer to God as Father.

This list of fathers bible verses is a sampling of the two primary emphases in scripture: human fathers and the heavenly Father. They would all work for bible studies. Many of them would also work as notes in fathers' day greeting cards.

In addition to these fathers bible verses you might also want to read some verses about marriage.

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