50 Bible verses about fathers love
Are you looking for bible verses about a father’s love? Here are 50 bible verses about a father’s love from the ESV bible version.
50 Bible verses about fathers love
1. 1 John 3:1
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.”
2. John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
3. Romans 8:15
“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!
4. Psalm 103:13
“As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.”
5. Matthew 7:11
“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!”
6. Jeremiah 31:3
“The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.”
7. Ephesians 1:5
“He predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.”
8. Luke 15:20
“And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.”
9. Zephaniah 3:17
“The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”
10. 1 John 4:9-10
“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
11. Proverbs 3:12
“For the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.”
12. Colossians 3:21
“Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”
13. Ephesians 6:4
“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
14. Proverbs 22:6
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
15. Psalm 127:3-5
“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!”
16. Proverbs 23:24
“The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.”
17. Exodus 20:12
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”
18. Deuteronomy 6:6-7
“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
19. 3 John 1:4
“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”
20. Genesis 18:19
“For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”
21. Isaiah 64:8
“But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.”
22. Proverbs 14:26
“In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.”
23. Hebrews 12:7
“It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?”
24. Proverbs 13:24
“Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.”
25. 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12
“For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.”
26. Malachi 4:6
“And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
27. Job 1:5
“And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, ‘It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.’ Thus Job did continually.”
28. Proverbs 4:1-2
“Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching.”
29. Joshua 24:15
“And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region 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.”
30. Psalm 78:4
“We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.”
31. Proverbs 17:6
“Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.”
32. Proverbs 20:7
“The righteous who walks in his integrity – blessed are his children after him!”
33. Isaiah 38:19
“The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.”
34. Psalm 103:17-18
“But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.”
35. Deuteronomy 4:9
“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children.”
36. Genesis 33:5
“And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, ‘Who are these with you?’ Jacob said, ‘The children whom God has graciously given your servant.'”
37. 1 Kings 2:2-3
“I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.”
38. Psalm 112:1-2
“Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments! His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.”
39. Proverbs 15:5
“A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.”
40. Deuteronomy 30:19-20
“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
41. Psalm 68:5
“Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.”
42. 2 Corinthians 6:18
“And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
43. Matthew 6: 9
“Pray then like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.'”
44. James 1:17
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”
45. Romans 8:38-39
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
46. John 14:21
“Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
47. Galatians 4:6
“And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!”
48. John 16:27
“For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.”
49. Ephesians 3:14-15
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.”
50. Psalm 103:17
“But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children.”
