Bible verses about "fatherhood" | ACV

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you to serve LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve LORD.

⁵ A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. ⁶ God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners into prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

¹ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

¹¹ My son, despise not the chastening of LORD, nor be weary of his reproof. ¹² For whom LORD loves he reproves, and he whips every son whom he receives.

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

⁹ And do not designate a father of you upon the earth, for one is your Father, he in the heavens.

⁹ Or what man is there of you, who, if his son may ask for bread, will give him a stone, ¹⁰ and if he may ask for a fish, will give him a serpent? ¹¹ If ye therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father in the heavens will give good things to those who ask him?

¹⁰ Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

⁵ 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 sons, ⁶ that the generation to come might know, even the sons who should be born, who should arise and tell to their sons, ⁷ that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments, ⁸ and might not be as their fathers: a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

¹⁸ Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

²⁰ And having risen, he went to his father. But while he was still distant, afar off, his father saw him and felt compassion. And having ran, he fell on his neck, and kissed him much. ²¹ And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight. I am no more worthy to be called thy son. ²² But the father said to his bondmen, Bring forth the best robe and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and shoes for his feet. ²³ And having brought the fatted calf, kill it, and having eaten, we will be cheerful, ²⁴ because this my son was dead, and became alive again. And he was lost, and is found. And they began to be cheerful.

⁴ I have no greater joy than these things that I hear my children walking in truth.

²⁴ He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him promptly.

¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of LORD, to do righteousness and justice, to the end that LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.

²¹ Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.

¹ Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. ² For I give you good doctrine. Forsake ye not my law. ³ For I was a son to my father, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. ⁴ And he taught me, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live. ⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding. Do not forget, nor decline from the words of my mouth. ⁶ Do not forsake her, and she will preserve thee. Love her, and she will keep thee. ⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing. Get wisdom, yea, with all thy getting get understanding. ⁸ Exalt her, and she will promote thee. She will bring thee to honor when thou embrace her. ⁹ She will give to thy head a garland of grace, a crown of beauty she will deliver to thee.

¹³ Like as a father pities his sons, So LORD pities those who fear him.

⁷ A righteous man who walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him.

⁴ And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of the Lord.