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 that begets a wise child shall have joy in him.

Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, who is in heaven.

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

To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Woe unto him that says unto his father, What do you beget? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Like as a father pities his children, so the LORD pities them that fear him.

For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto 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 unto the Father of spirits, and live?

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

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

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Unto 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?

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful heritage of 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 grief 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 begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn birth is better than he.

He shall cry unto me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

Philip said unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it will satisfy us.

As for me, behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep through your own name those whom you have given me, that they may be one, as we are.

And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your exile here in fear:

And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in his own power.

I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because you have known the Father.

And he said unto them, How is it that you sought me? knew you not that I must be about my Father's business?

And the Father himself, who has sent me, has borne witness of me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

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, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.

Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

O righteous Father, 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 unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said unto them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get you out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, unto a land that I will show you:

Moreover he said, I am the God of your 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.