Bible Verses about 'Fathers'

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• You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
  Ephesians 6:4lawfamilychildren
• House and riches are an inheritance from fathers,
  but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
  Proverbs 19:14moneyrelationships
• May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us.
  1 Kings 8:57nearnessreliabilityfamily
• The father of the righteous has great joy.
  Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
  Proverbs 23:24joywisdomfamily
• Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry.
  Don’t be silent at my tears.
  For I am a stranger with you,
  a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
  Psalm 39:12prayersadnesshumility
• I thank you and praise you,
  O God of my fathers,
  who have given me wisdom and might,
  and have now made known to me what we desired of you;
  for you have made known to us the king’s matter.
  Daniel 2:23worshipwisdomprayer
• Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
  Zechariah 1:4conversionevillistening
• He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
  Deuteronomy 8:3sufferingWord of Godlife
• If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.
  Joshua 24:15familyidolsfollowing
• Knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ.
  1 Peter 1:18-19SaviorJesuslife
• Children’s children are the crown of old men;
  the glory of children is their parents.
  Proverbs 17:6childrenfamily
• For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt, then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
  Jeremiah 7:5-7conversionwidowsorphans
• As knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine, according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
  1 Timothy 1:9-11lawsinsexuality