The King James Version Bible

Bible Verses About Fatherhood

  • The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
  • Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
  • And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
  • Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me ...
  • Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
  • 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.
  • He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
  • For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who ...
  • Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
  • 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. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and ...
  • A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
  • The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
  • A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
  • Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in ...
  • And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
  • 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 ...
  • 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.
  • 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 his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose ...