Father

Throughout the Bible, the concept of fatherhood holds significant importance, symbolizing guidance, love, and authority.

From earthly fathers to the ultimate Father in heaven, the Scriptures portray various aspects of fatherhood, reflecting God’s relationship with His people. Here, we compile a list of 30 Bible verses that speak the theme of fatherhood.

Bible Verses about Father:

1. 1. Malachi 2:10 – “Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?”
   2. Matthew 6:9 – “Pray then like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.'”
   3. Matthew 7:11 – “If you then, who are 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!”
   4. Romans 8:15 – “For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!'”

<li>Ephesians 4:6 – “One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”

• Hebrews 12:7 – “It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?”
• Exodus 20:12 – “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”
• Proverbs 3:11-12 – “My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.”
• Psalm 103:13 – “As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.”
• Proverbs 20:7 – “The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!”
• Colossians 3:21 – “Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”
• Luke 15:20 – “And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.”
• Psalm 68:5 – “Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.”
• Proverbs 22:6 – “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
• 1 Corinthians 4:15 – “For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.”
• James 1:17 – “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”
• 1 John 3:1 – “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”
• Proverbs 3:12 – “For the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.”
• Psalm 127:3 – “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.”
• Proverbs 17:6 – “Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.”
• Ephesians 6:4 – “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
• Psalm 103:17 – “But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children.”
• Proverbs 23:24 – “The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.”
• John 1:12-13 – “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”
• Proverbs 13:24 – “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.”
• Luke 11:11-13 – “What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
• Psalm 68:6 – “God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.”
• Proverbs 1:8-9 – “Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.”
• Proverbs 23:22 – “Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”
• Luke 15:11-32 – The Parable of the Prodigal Son, illustrating the unconditional love and forgiveness of a father.

These verses reflect the multifaceted role of fathers as depicted in the Bible, from earthly fathers providing guidance and discipline to the ultimate Father in heaven, whose love and compassion know no bounds.