Father's Day Bible verses — honouring fathers
Much of a father's best work is invisible: the steadiness, the provision, the prayers said over sleeping children. These verses honour it — Scripture on a father's calling, his heart, and the heavenly Father every good dad points to — each verse exact King James Version, with a gentle note.
Read one in a card or across the table. Every verse links into its full chapter — and any of them makes a fine verse card for the day.
A father's calling
The quiet, daily work Scripture assigns to fathers.
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.
The household declaration: as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. Read in context →
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
Faith taught diligently — in the house, by the way, lying down, rising up. Read in context →
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Provoke not your children — nurture and admonition instead. Read in context →
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Train up a child in the way he should go. Read in context →
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. Read in context →
A father's heart
Compassion, correction, and the love that runs to meet returning children.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. Read in context →
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.
The running father — grace sprinting down the road. Read in context →
My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
Correction as love: whom the LORD loveth he correcteth. Read in context →
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Children as heritage and arrows in a mighty man's hand. Read in context →
Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Children's children are the crown of old men. Read in context →
The Father he mirrors
Every good father sketches a greater one.
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?
If earthly fathers give good gifts — how much more your Father in heaven. Read in context →
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
A father of the fatherless — God's chosen introduction. Read in context →
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Every good gift comes down from the Father of lights. Read in context →
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.
The Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. Read in context →
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Behold, what manner of love — that we should be called the sons of God. Read in context →
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Verses about fathers
The full collection, verse by verse.
A prayer for my husband
For the father in your house.
The names of God
Abba, Father — and every other name explained.
Make a Father's Day card
Turn his verse into a card — free.
Devotionals for men
Mornings written for the men of the house.
Verses about family
For the household he serves.
