Bible verses about "fatherhood" | Thomson

¹⁵ But if it seemeth not good to you to serve the Lord, chuse for yourselves this day whom you will serve, either the gods of your fathers which were in beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord; for he is holy.

⁵ Let them be awed at the presence of him, who is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of them who are widows. God is in a place consecrated to him: ⁶ God settleth the lonely in a family, having brought out with strength them who had been bound; in like manner them who were rebellious; them, whose habitation is now in tombs.

¹ A wise son maketh a father glad; but a foolish son is a grief to the mother.

¹¹ My son, slight not the correction of the Lord; nor faint when reproved by him: ¹² for whom the Lord loveth he reproveth: and chastiseth every son whom he receiveth.

⁶ [Omitted]

²² A good man shall leave an inheritance to his children; but the wealth of the wicked is treasured up for the righteous.

⁹ Is there any man among you, who, when his son asketh bread, will give him a stone; ¹⁰ or if he ask for a fish will give him a serpent? ¹¹ If you therefore, bad as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father who is in heaven give good things to them who ask him?

¹⁰ Have you not all one father? Hath not one God created you? Why then have you forsaken every one his brother? For profaning the covenant of your fathers,

⁹ and should call no one on earth your father, for one is your father, namely, he who is in heaven.

⁵ Thus he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and established a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make known to their children: ⁶ that the succeeding generation; the children to be born, might know it, and rise and tell the same to their children: ⁷ that they might put their trust in God, and not forget the works of God, but seek diligently his commandments; ⁸ that they might not be like their fathers; a perverse and rebellious generation; a generation which set not their hearts aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

¹⁸ Chasten thy son, for thus he will be hopeful; but be not in thy soul transported to haughtiness.

²⁰ Accordingly he arose and went to his father. But he keeping yet at a distance, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. ²¹ Whereupon the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. ²² But the father said to his servants, Bring out the best robe and put it on him; and put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet. ²³ And bring out the fatted calf and kill it. And let us eat and be joyful; ²⁴ because this my son was dead and is come to life. He was indeed lost and is now found. So they began to be merry.

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

²⁴ He who spareth the rod hateth his son; but he who loveth him correcteth diligently.

¹⁹ For I know that he will command his children and his household after him, who are to keep the ways of the Lord, to execute judgment and justice, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham all that he hath spoken to him.

²¹ Fathers, exasperate not your children, lest they be discouraged

¹ Hear, children, the instructions of a father; and attend to know the meaning: ² for I am giving you a good gift: forsake not my law: ³ for I was a son obedient to a father; and beloved in the sight of a mother: ⁴ and they said when they taught me, "Let our words sink deep in thy heart. Keep our commandments; do not forget; ⁵ overlook not the dictate of my mouth: ⁶ forsake it not, and it will defend thee: love it and it will preserve thee: ⁷ [Omitted] ⁸ secure it and it will exalt thee: honour it that it may embrace thee: ⁹ that it may be to thy head a crown of graces and cover thee with a crown of pleasure.

¹³ As a father pitieth his children; the Lord hath pitied them who fear him,

⁷ He who conducteth himself spotless in justice shall leave behind him his children happy.

⁴ And you, parents, exasperate not your children, but educate them with the discipline and admonition of the Lord.