Fatherhood

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• Psalms 103:13

  Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

• Ephesians 6:4

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

• Proverbs 20:7

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

• Colossians 3:21

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

• Proverbs 4:1–9

  Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. …

• Genesis 18:19

  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.

• Proverbs 22:6

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

• Proverbs 13:24

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

• 3 John 1:4

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

• Proverbs 3:11–12

  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.

• Luke 15:20–24

  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. 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. 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: …

• Psalms 127:3–5

  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. 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.

• Psalms 78:5–8

  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: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: …

• Proverbs 19:18

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

• Matthew 23:9

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

• Proverbs 10:1

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

• Matthew 7:9–11

  Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 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?

• Joshua 24:15

  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.

• Proverbs 14:26

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

• John 3:16

  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.

• Psalms 68:5–6

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

• Malachi 2:10

  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?

• Proverbs 23:24

  The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

• Proverbs 13:22

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

• Deuteronomy 6:6–9

  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. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. …

• Malachi 4:6

  And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

• Proverbs 23:22

  Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

• Job 1:4–5

  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. 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.

• Hebrews 12:7

  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

• 1 Corinthians 16:13

  Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

• Joshua 1:9

  Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

• Exodus 20:12

  Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

• John 14:6

  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

• Matthew 6:26

  Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

• Isaiah 64:8

  But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

• Romans 8:14

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

• Proverbs 15:5

  A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

• Deuteronomy 1:29–31

  Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

• Genesis 2:24

  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

• Ephesians 6:1–3

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

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