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Bible Verses About Father

This collection includes 50 passages about Father. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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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?

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And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

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

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For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

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

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For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

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Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

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And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

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But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

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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.

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

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

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He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

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And said unto them, I see your fatherโ€™s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.

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For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

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

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I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

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

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If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

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Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

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If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

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Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

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Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

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For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

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That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

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

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

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One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

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The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

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That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

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A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

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For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

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For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:

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I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

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And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.

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

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The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

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Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

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Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

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