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Bible Verses about “dad”

The Bible contains 39 verses about dad across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Ephesians 6:4
1043 votes

“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

Proverbs 22:6
1017 votes

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

Psalms 127:3
1003 votes

“Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.”

Psalms 127:4
559 votes

“As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.”

Psalms 127:5
556 votes

“Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.”

Exodus 20:12
517 votes

“"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”

Colossians 3:21
347 votes

“Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.”

Proverbs 17:6
215 votes

“Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.”

Deuteronomy 6:7
187 votes

“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.”

Hebrews 12:11
179 votes

“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.”

Matthew 7:11
173 votes

“If you then, being 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!”

Luke 15:22
168 votes

“"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.”

Matthew 7:9
160 votes

“Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?”

Matthew 7:10
160 votes

“Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?”

Luke 15:24
149 votes

“for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.”

Deuteronomy 6:6
145 votes

“These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;”

Luke 15:20
141 votes

“"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.”

Luke 15:21
139 votes

“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.'”

Luke 15:23
139 votes

“Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;”

Psalms 103:13
126 votes

“Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.”

Hebrews 12:8
119 votes

“But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.”

Proverbs 23:22
106 votes

“Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.”

Proverbs 3:12
104 votes

“for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.”

Proverbs 3:11
100 votes

“My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:”

Hebrews 12:7
81 votes

“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?”

Hebrews 12:9
66 votes

“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?”

Hebrews 12:10
66 votes

“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.”

Deuteronomy 6:9
53 votes

“You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.”

Deuteronomy 6:8
50 votes

“You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.”

Malachi 4:6
39 votes

“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."”

Proverbs 23:24
35 votes

“The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.”

Proverbs 4:2
30 votes

“for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.”

Proverbs 4:3
30 votes

“For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.”

Proverbs 4:1
28 votes

“Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;”

Proverbs 4:4
28 votes

“He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.”

1 Thessalonians 2:11
20 votes

“As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,”

1 Thessalonians 2:12
20 votes

“to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.”

2 Samuel 7:14
10 votes

“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;”

2 Samuel 7:15
10 votes

“but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.”

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