Bible Verses for Fathers

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

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.

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

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

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

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.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

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.

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

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?

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

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

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

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.