Bible verses about "fatherhood" | JuliaSmith

¹⁵ And if evil in your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served which are beyond the river, and whether the gods of the Amorite which ye dwelt in their land: and I and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

⁵ A father of orphans and a judge of widows, God in his holy habitation. ⁶ God setting the only ones in the house, bringing forth the bound into prosperities, but those turning away dwelt in a dry land.

¹ Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son will gladden a father: and a son of the foolish will grieve his mother.

¹¹ My son, thou shalt not reject the instruction of Jehovah, and thou shalt not loathe upon his reproofs: ¹² For whom Jehovah shall love he will rebuke, as a father the son he will delight in.

⁶ Straiten to a youth upon the mouth of his way, also when he shall grow old he will not depart from it.

²² The good shall cause his sons' sons to inherit: and the wealth of him sinning was treasured up for the just.

⁹ And call not your father upon earth: for one is your Father, which in the heavens.

⁹ Or what man is of you, which, if his son ask bread, he will not give him a stone? ¹⁰ And if he ask a fish, he will not give him a serpent? ¹¹ If ye, therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children how much more will your Father which is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

¹⁰ Is there not one father to us all? is there not one God creating us? wherefore shall we deal faithlessly each against his brother, to profane the covenant of our fathers?

⁵ For he raised up a testimony in Jacob and set a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make them known to their sons: ⁶ So that a later generation shall know; sons shall be born, they shall rise up and recount to their sons. ⁷ And they shall set their hope in God, and they shall not forget the works of God, and they shall watch his commands. ⁸ And they shall not be as their fathers, a generation turning away and bitter, a generation it prepared not its heart, and its spirit was not firm with God.

¹⁸ Correct thy son when there is hope, and thy soul shall not lift up for his sighing.

²⁰ And having risen, he came to his father. And yet being far off, his father saw him, and felt compassion, and having run, fell upon his neck, and kissed him. ²¹ And the son said to him, Father, I sinned against heaven, and before thee, and I am no more worthy to be called thy son. ²² And the father said to his servants, Bring out the first robe, and clothe him; and give a ring for his hand, and shoes for the feet: ²³ And having brought the fatted calf, sacrifice, and eating, let us be gladdened. ²⁴ For this my son was dead, and has returned to life; and he was lost, and found. And they began to be gladdened.

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

²⁴ He withholding his rod hates his son: and he loving him, sought correction for him.

¹⁹ For I know him, for that he will command his sons and his house after him; and they watched the way of Jehovah to do justice and judgment, for Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what he spake to him.

²¹ Fathers, irritate not your children, lest they be discouraged.

¹ Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. ² For I gave to you good instruction; ye shall not forsake my law. ³ For I was son to my father; tender and only before the face of my mother. ⁴ And he taught me, and he will say to me, Thy heart shall hold fast my words: watch my commands and live. ⁵ Obtain wisdom, obtain understanding: thou shalt not forget, and thou shalt not decline from the words of my mouth. ⁶ Thou shalt not forsake her, and she will watch thee: love her, and she will guard thee. ⁷ Wisdom the beginning; obtain wisdom, and with all thine acquisition, obtain understanding. ⁸ Lift her up and she shall exalt thee: she will honor thee when thou. shalt embrace her. ⁹ She will give to thy head a garland of grace: a crown of glory she will deliver thee.

¹³ As a father compassionating over his sons, Jehovah compassionated those fearing him.

⁷ The just one going about in his integrity: his sons happy after him.

⁴ And, fathers, be not angry with your children: but bring them up in the instruction and reminding of the Lord.