Fatherhood Bible Verses

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PROVERBS 20:7In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 7 The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

EPHESIANS 6:4In the Bible Verse Meaning

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

PSALM 103:13In the Bible Verse Meaning

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

PROVERBS 4:1–9Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
    Proverbs 4:1 Meaning
  • 2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
    Proverbs 4:2 Meaning
  • 3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
    Proverbs 4:3 Meaning
  • 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
    Proverbs 4:4 Meaning
  • 5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
    Proverbs 4:5 Meaning
  • 6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
    Proverbs 4:6 Meaning
  • 7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
    Proverbs 4:7 Meaning
  • 8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
    Proverbs 4:8 Meaning
  • 9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
    Proverbs 4:9 Meaning

GENESIS 18:19In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 19 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.

COLOSSIANS 3:21In the Bible Verse Meaning

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

PROVERBS 13:24In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

PROVERBS 19:18In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 18 Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

PSALM 78:5–8Verses in the Bible

  • 5 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:
    Psalm 78:5 Meaning
  • 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
    Psalm 78:6 Meaning
  • 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
    Psalm 78:7 Meaning
  • 8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
    Psalm 78:8 Meaning

LUKE 15:20–24Verses in the Bible

  • 20 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.
    Luke 15:20 Meaning
  • 21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
    Luke 15:21 Meaning
  • 22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
    Luke 15:22 Meaning
  • 23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
    Luke 15:23 Meaning
  • 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
    Luke 15:24 Meaning

3 JOHN 1:4In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

PSALM 68:5–6Verses in the Bible

  • 5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
    Psalm 68:5 Meaning
  • 6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
    Psalm 68:6 Meaning

PROVERBS 10:1In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

MATTHEW 23:9In the Bible Verse Meaning

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

PROVERBS 13:22In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

PROVERBS 3:11–12Verses in the Bible

  • 11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:
    Proverbs 3:11 Meaning
  • 12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
    Proverbs 3:12 Meaning

MATTHEW 7:9–11Verses in the Bible

  • 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
    Matthew 7:9 Meaning
  • 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
    Matthew 7:10 Meaning
  • 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
    Matthew 7:11 Meaning

MALACHI 2:10In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

JOB 1:4–5Verses in the Bible

  • 4 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.
    Job 1:4 Meaning
  • 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
    Job 1:5 Meaning

JOSHUA 24:15In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 15 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.

JOHN 3:16In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

PROVERBS 22:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

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

PROVERBS 14:26In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 26 In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

HEBREWS 12:4–13Verses in the Bible

  • 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
    Hebrews 12:4 Meaning
  • 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
    Hebrews 12:5 Meaning
  • 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
    Hebrews 12:6 Meaning
  • 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
    Hebrews 12:7 Meaning
  • 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
    Hebrews 12:8 Meaning
  • 9 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?
    Hebrews 12:9 Meaning
  • 10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
    Hebrews 12:10 Meaning
  • 11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
    Hebrews 12:11 Meaning
  • 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
    Hebrews 12:12 Meaning
  • 13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
    Hebrews 12:13 Meaning

MATTHEW 10:34–36Verses in the Bible

  • 34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
    Matthew 10:34 Meaning
  • 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
    Matthew 10:35 Meaning
  • 36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
    Matthew 10:36 Meaning

MATTHEW 6:9In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

DEUTERONOMY 6:1–25Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
    Deuteronomy 6:1 Meaning
  • 2 That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
    Deuteronomy 6:2 Meaning
  • 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
    Deuteronomy 6:3 Meaning
  • 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:
    Deuteronomy 6:4 Meaning
  • 5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
    Deuteronomy 6:5 Meaning
  • 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
    Deuteronomy 6:6 Meaning
  • 7 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.
    Deuteronomy 6:7 Meaning
  • 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
    Deuteronomy 6:8 Meaning
  • 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
    Deuteronomy 6:9 Meaning
  • 10 And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
    Deuteronomy 6:10 Meaning
  • 11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
    Deuteronomy 6:11 Meaning
  • 12 Then beware lest thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
    Deuteronomy 6:12 Meaning
  • 13 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
    Deuteronomy 6:13 Meaning
  • 14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
    Deuteronomy 6:14 Meaning
  • 15 (For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
    Deuteronomy 6:15 Meaning
  • 16 Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
    Deuteronomy 6:16 Meaning
  • 17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
    Deuteronomy 6:17 Meaning
  • 18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers,
    Deuteronomy 6:18 Meaning
  • 19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
    Deuteronomy 6:19 Meaning
  • 20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?
    Deuteronomy 6:20 Meaning
  • 21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
    Deuteronomy 6:21 Meaning
  • 22 And the Lord shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
    Deuteronomy 6:22 Meaning
  • 23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
    Deuteronomy 6:23 Meaning
  • 24 And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
    Deuteronomy 6:24 Meaning
  • 25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
    Deuteronomy 6:25 Meaning

DEUTERONOMY 6:6–9Verses in the Bible

  • 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
    Deuteronomy 6:6 Meaning
  • 7 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.
    Deuteronomy 6:7 Meaning
  • 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
    Deuteronomy 6:8 Meaning
  • 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
    Deuteronomy 6:9 Meaning

PSALM 127:3–5Verses in the Bible

  • 3 Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
    Psalm 127:3 Meaning
  • 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
    Psalm 127:4 Meaning
  • 5 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.
    Psalm 127:5 Meaning

ROMANS 8:14In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

GALATIANS 4:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

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

1 TIMOTHY 3:8–13Verses in the Bible

  • 8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
    1 Timothy 3:8 Meaning
  • 9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
    1 Timothy 3:9 Meaning
  • 10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
    1 Timothy 3:10 Meaning
  • 11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
    1 Timothy 3:11 Meaning
  • 12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
    1 Timothy 3:12 Meaning
  • 13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
    1 Timothy 3:13 Meaning

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