Bible Verses for Father's Day

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

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

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.

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.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

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:

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

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

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.

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

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.