Bible Verses About Father's Day

- Ephesians 6:1-41 Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward), 3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth. 4 And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord. Related Topics: AngerChildrenFamilyMother's DayMothers
- Proverbs 23:22-2522 Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old. 23 Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense. 24 The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him. 25 Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy. Related Topics: JoyKidsMother's DayMothersTruth
- Colossians 3:18-2118 Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord. 19 Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them. 20 Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken. Related Topics: AngerChildrenMarriageRelationshipsWomen
- Proverbs 22:66 If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it. Related Topics: ChildrenFamilyMother's DayMothersRelationships
- Psalm 103:1313 As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers. Related Topics: FathersFearFear and WorryParentingRaising Children
- Deuteronomy 6:4-94 Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord: 5 And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts; 7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up. 8 Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow; 9 Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns. Related Topics: FamilyLoveMothersStrengthWorship
- Psalm 127:3-53 See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward. 4 Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young. 5 Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters. Related Topics: AbortionChildrenFamilyMother's DayMothers
- Proverbs 3:11-1211 My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training: 12 For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain. Related Topics: DisciplineFathersGod's LoveLearningParenting
- Hebrews 12:5-115 And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him; 6 For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod. 7 It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father? 8 But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame. 9 And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life? 10 For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is. 11 At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness. Related Topics: ChildrenGod's LoveKidsPeaceTrust
- Exodus 20:1212 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. Related Topics: ChildrenFamilyMother's DayMothersWomen
- Joshua 24:14-1514 So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord. 15 And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord. Related Topics: FamilyGraduationServingServing Others
- Deuteronomy 1:29-3129 Then I said to you, Have no fear of them. 30 The Lord your God who goes before you will be fighting for you, and will do such wonders as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 31 And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place. Related Topics: Being a Child of GodDadsDiscouragement
- Proverbs 20:77 An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him! Related Topics: DadsFathersHonesty
- Proverbs 4:1-41 Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge: 2 For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me. 3 For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother. 4 And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life: Related Topics: DadsFathersTeachingTeaching ChildrenUnderstanding
- Matthew 7:7-117 Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you: 8 Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open. 9 Or which of you, if his son makes a request for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he makes a request for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him? Related Topics: FathersGod's GoodnessGod's PromisesKidsWaiting on the Lord
- Proverbs 14:2626 For him in whose heart is the fear of the Lord there is strong hope: and his children will have a safe place. Related Topics: AdoptionConfidenceFathersGod's ProtectionProtection
- Joshua 1:99 Have I not given you your orders? Take heart and be strong; have no fear and do not be troubled; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go, Related Topics: AnxietyDepressionFearStressWorry
- Deuteronomy 21:18-2118 If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment: 19 Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place; 20 And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink. 21 Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear. Related Topics: AlcoholDrinkingMother's DayMothersParenting
- Psalm 128:3-43 Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table. 4 See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord. Related Topics: BabiesDadsKids
- Luke 15:20-2420 And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss. 21 And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son. 22 But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet: 23 And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad. 24 For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy. Related Topics: CompassionEating MeatRaising ChildrenRevivalSympathy
- Malachi 4:66 And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse. Related Topics: Dads
- 1 Corinthians 13:1-81 If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell. 2 And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me. 4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; 5 Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; 6 It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; 7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things. 8 Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end. Related Topics: FaithForgivenessLoveMarriage
- Proverbs 1:8-98 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother: 9 For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck. Related Topics: ChildrenKidsMother's DayMothersRelationships
- 1 Thessalonians 2:10-1210 You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith; 11 Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness, 12 So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory. Related Topics: Being StrongDisasterEncouragementMotivationSympathy
- Proverbs 3:1-61 My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart: 2 For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace. 3 Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart; 4 So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men. 5 Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support. 6 In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps. Related Topics: AnxietyChildrenLoveStressWorry
- John 3:16-1716 For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life. 17 God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him. Related Topics: AngerAnxietyDeathFaithSuicide
- Proverbs 17:66 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers. Related Topics: BabiesFamilyKidsMother's DayMothers
- Deuteronomy 5:1616 Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. Related Topics: GrandparentsKidsMothersRaising ChildrenYouth
- Proverbs 10:11 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. Related Topics: BabiesKidsMother's DayMothersParenting
- Exodus 21:1717 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death. Related Topics: CursingCussingDadsFathersMothers
- Luke 11:9-139 And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you. 10 For to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire; and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open. 11 And which of you, being a father, will give a stone to his son, who makes request for bread? or for a fish, will give him a snake? 12 Or for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him? Related Topics: GenerosityGod's PromisesKidsPrayerSpiritual Gifts
- 1 Timothy 3:2-52 The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher; 3 Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money; 4 Ruling his house well, having his children under control with all serious behaviour; 5 (For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?) Related Topics: AlcoholEducationFamilyFathersGreed
- Matthew 15:4-94 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death. 5 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God; 6 There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching. 7 You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you, 8 These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 9 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men. Related Topics: FathersHypocrisyThe HeartTrustWorship
- Leviticus 19:33 Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. Related Topics: DadsFathersRaising ChildrenRespectThe Sabbath
- 2 Timothy 3:15-1715 And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: 17 So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work. Related Topics: FaithJudging OthersSalvationThe Holy SpiritYouth
- 1 Corinthians 16:1313 Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men. Related Topics: CourageEncouraging OthersFaithHope and FaithNot Giving Up
- Proverbs 6:20-2220 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother: 21 Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck. 22 In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you. Related Topics: FamilyFathersKidsMothersYouth
- Deuteronomy 8:55 Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God. Related Topics: DadsFathersKnowing GodRaising Children
- Isaiah 64:88 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand. Related Topics: DadsFathersWork
- Mark 7:10-1310 For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death: 11 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God, 12 You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother; 13 Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do. Related Topics: Raising Children
- Proverbs 13:11 A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words. Related Topics: DisciplineHonoring Your ParentsListeningRaising Children
- Titus 2:7-87 In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour, 8 Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us. Related Topics: Hard WorkHonestyIntegrityLyingWorking Hard
- Proverbs 13:2424 He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care. Related Topics: DisciplineFathersKidsParentingYouth
- 1 Timothy 5:88 If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith. Related Topics: FamilyGamblingHelping OthersRelationshipsWork
- Ephesians 5:25-3325 Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it; 26 So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word, 27 And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete. 28 Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself: 29 For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church; 30 Because we are parts of his body. 31 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. 32 This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church. 33 But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband. Related Topics: FamilyLoveRelationshipsSuicide
- 3 John 1:44 I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way. Related Topics: DadsDaughtersFathersMother's DayTeaching Children
- James 1:1717 Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning. Related Topics: BabiesChangeGivingGratitudeLight
- Romans 8:12-1712 So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh: 13 For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life. 14 And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God: 17 And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory. Related Topics: FearPrayerRelationshipsSelf ControlThe Holy Spirit
- Exodus 21:1515 Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death. Related Topics: DadsFathersMothers
- Genesis 2:2424 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh. Related Topics: DadsHonoring Your ParentsLove and FamilyLove and MarriageUnity
- Job 1:4-54 His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them. 5 And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round. Related Topics: MorningWorship
- Matthew 10:3737 He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me. Related Topics: Daughters
- Psalm 92:12-1512 The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon. 13 Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens. 14 They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth; 15 For a sign that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him. Related Topics: Bearing FruitGrandmothersGrandparentsGrowing in FaithRetirement
- Proverbs 29:1515 The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother. Related Topics: Honoring Your ParentsKidsTeaching ChildrenWisdom
- Proverbs 19:1818 Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death. Related Topics: DadsDisciplineKidsRaising ChildrenTeaching Children
- Proverbs 15:55 A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense. Related Topics: FathersFoolsKidsRaising Children
- Proverbs 17:2525 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth. Related Topics: BitternessDadsGrief
- 2 Samuel 7:14-1514 I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men; 15 But my mercy will not be taken away from him, as I took it from him who was before you. Related Topics: AdoptionDadsFathers
- 1 Timothy 3:12-1312 Let Deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their houses well. 13 For those who have done good work as Deacons get for themselves a good position and become free from fear in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. Related Topics: ConfidenceHusbandsMarriageRaising ChildrenServing
- Matthew 10:34-3634 Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: 36 And a man will be hated by those of his house. Related Topics: BetrayalDaughtersEnemiesPeacePeace and Love
- Philippians 4:66 Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God. Related Topics: FinancesPatiencePatience and LoveSuccess
- Galatians 5:22-2322 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, 23 Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law. Related Topics: God's LoveJoyLoveMother's DayMothers
- Proverbs 20:2020 If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night. Related Topics: Honoring Your ParentsMother's DayMothers
- Exodus 34:6-76 And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith; 7 Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation. Related Topics: AngerGod's FaithfulnessGod's LoveKindnessLove
- 1 Peter 4:88 And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number: Related Topics: God's LoveMarriageMother's DayMothersRelationships