Bible verses about "fatherhood" | MSTC

¹⁵ But if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, then choose you this day, whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served, that were on the other side of the water, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land, ye dwelt. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

⁵ He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation. ⁶ He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in a house, and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity, but letteth the renegades continue in scarceness.

¹ Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.

¹¹ My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither faint when thou are rebuked of him. ¹² For whom the LORD loveth, him he chasteneth: and yet delighteth in him even as a father in his own son.

⁶ If thou teachest a child in his youth what way he should go; he shall not leave it when he is old.

²² which their children's children shall have in possession - for the riches of the sinner is laid up for the just.

⁹ And call ye no man your father upon the earth, for there is but one, your father, and he is in heaven.

⁹ Is there any man among you which, if his son asked him bread, would offer him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asked fish, would he proffer him a serpent? ¹¹ If ye then, which are evil, can give to your children good gifts, how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask of him?

¹⁰ Have we not all one father? Hath not one God made us? Why doth every one of us then despise his own brother, and so break the covenant of our fathers?

⁵ He made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel a law, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children, ⁶ that their posterity might know it, and the children which were yet unborn, to the intent that when they came up, they might show their children the same; ⁷ that they also might put their trust in God, and not to forget what he had done, but to keep his commandments. ⁸ And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not true toward God.

¹⁸ Chasten thy son while there is hope; but let not thy soul be moved to slay him.

²⁰ And he arose, and went to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran unto him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. ²¹ And the son said unto him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy henceforth to be called thy son.' ²² But his father said to his servants, 'Bring forth that best garment, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. ²³ And bring hither that fatted calf, and kill him, and let us eat and be merry: ²⁴ for this my son was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is now found.' And they began to be merry.

⁴ I have no greater joy than for to hear how that my sons walk in verity.

²⁴ He that spareth the rod, hateth his son; but whoso loveth him, chastiseth him betimes.

¹⁹ For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do after right and conscience, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that he hath promised him."

²¹ Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be of a desperate mind.

¹ Hear, O ye children, the fatherly exhortation, and take good heed, that ye may learn wisdom. ² Yea I shall give you a good reward, if ye will not forsake my law. ³ For when I myself was my father's dear son, and tenderly beloved of my mother, ⁴ he taught me also, saying, "Let thine heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live. ⁵ Get thee wisdom, get thee understanding, forget not the words of my mouth, and shrink not from them. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. ⁷ The chief point of wisdom is that thou be willing to obtain wisdom, and before all thy goods to get the understanding. ⁸ Make much of her and she shall promote thee: Yea, if thou embracest her, she shall bring thee unto honour. ⁹ She shall make thee a gracious head, and garnish thee with the crown of glory."

¹³ Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the LORD merciful unto them that fear him.

⁷ Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life; happy shall his children be whom he leaveth behind him.

⁴ And ye fathers, move not your children to wrath: but bring them up with the nurture and information of the Lord.