Bible Verses About Fathers
Scripture for and about fathers — their calling, their compassion, and the Father they mirror.
Fatherhood in the Bible is a high calling with a divine pattern: the Father whose pity, provision, and patience every earthly dad is invited to mirror. These verses are for fathers and their children.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
Like as a father pitieth his children — the model, from heaven down.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Provoke not — nurture and admonition instead.
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
A just father leaves blessed children behind him.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 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.
Faith taught diligently, in the house and by the way.
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.
Correction as love: whom the LORD loveth he correcteth, as a father.
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 — the Bible's greatest picture of fatherly grace.
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 father's declaration: as for me and my house.
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
Children as heritage and arrows — a father's stewardship.
Fathers give their children a first sketch of God. Draw it kindly — and where your own sketch was poor, the Father of the fatherless redraws it in full.
