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Bible Verses About Fathers

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

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

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

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

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Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

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

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

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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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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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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of 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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Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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

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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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Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

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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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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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There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

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

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(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

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I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

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Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

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

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

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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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Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

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Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

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My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

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