Bible Verses About Dads

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

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 .

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

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 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.

The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

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.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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.

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

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 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.

But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

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?

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:

For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

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:

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you , as a father doth his children,

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.