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.
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
“Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.”
“¶ Children's children [are] the crown of old men; and the glory of children [are] their fathers.”
“And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”
“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”
“‹But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put› [it] ‹on him; and 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. And they began to be merry.›”
“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:”
“¶ And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
“‹And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.›”
“‹And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.›”
“‹And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill› [it]; ‹and let us eat, and be merry:›”
“Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him.”
“But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.”
“For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in whom] he delighteth.”
“My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:”
“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?”
“Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?”
“For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.”
“And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.”
“And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”
“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.”
“¶ The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.”
“For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.”
“For I was my father's son, tender and only [beloved] in the sight of my mother.”
“¶ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.”
“He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.”
“As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father [doth] his children,”
“That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.”
“I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:”
“But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took [it] from Saul, whom I put away before thee.”