Bible verses for Father's Day

Short verses for a Father's Day card

1. The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

   Proverbs 20:7

   The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

2. Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

   Proverbs 17:6

   The glory of children are their fathers, and grandchildren are the crown of old men, a verse for a grandfather too.

3. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

   Psalm 103:13

   Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

4. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

   Proverbs 23:24

   The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice.

5. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

   Joshua 24:15

   As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD, Joshua's words as the head of his household.

6. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity.

   1 Corinthians 16:13-14

   Stand fast in the faith, be strong, and let all your things be done with charity.

7. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

   Proverbs 13:22

   A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children.

8. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.

   Psalm 128:3-4

   Children like olive plants round about thy table: thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.

Honour thy father

1. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

   Exodus 20:12

   Honour thy father and thy mother, one of the Ten Commandments.

2. Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

   Ephesians 6:1-3

   Paul repeats the commandment and calls it the first commandment with promise.

3. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

   Proverbs 1:8

   My son, hear the instruction of thy father.

4. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

   Proverbs 4:1-4

   A father passes on what his own father taught him: Let thine heart retain my words.

5. Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

   Proverbs 23:22

   Hearken unto thy father that begat thee.

6. The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

   Proverbs 10:1

   A wise son maketh a glad father.

Wisdom for fathers

Verses often used in a Father's Day sermon or given to a new dad.

1. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

   Ephesians 6:4

   Provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

2. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

   Colossians 3:21

   Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

3. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

   Deuteronomy 6:6-7

   Talk of God's words at home, on the road, at bedtime and in the morning.

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

   Proverbs 22:6

   Train up a child in the way he should go.

5. For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

   Genesis 18:19

   God says he knows Abraham will command his children and his household after him.

6. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

   Psalm 78:4

   We will not hide them from their children, but tell the next generation what God has done.

7. For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

   Proverbs 3:12

   The LORD corrects those he loves, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

8. As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

   1 Thessalonians 2:11

   Paul exhorted and comforted his readers as a father doth his children.

9. I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man; And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:

   1 Kings 2:2-3

   David's last charge to his son Solomon: be thou strong, and keep the charge of the LORD.

10. Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

    Psalm 127:3-5

    Children are like arrows in the hand of a mighty man.

Fathers of the Bible

1. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

   Luke 15:20

   The father in the parable of the prodigal son sees his son a great way off and runs to him.

2. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

   Genesis 22:7-8

   Isaac asks his father where the lamb is, and Abraham answers, God will provide.

3. Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:

   Matthew 1:24

   Joseph wakes and does as the angel of the Lord told him, taking Mary as his wife.

4. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

   Job 1:5

   Job rose early to offer burnt offerings for each of his children, and did so continually.

5. And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

   2 Samuel 18:33

   King David weeps for his son Absalom: would God I had died for thee.

6. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

   Malachi 4:6

   The last verse of the Old Testament in the KJV promises to turn the heart of the fathers to the children.

God our Father

For anyone who has lost their father or finds Father's Day hard.

1. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

   Psalm 68:5

   A father of the fatherless is God in his holy habitation.

2. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

   Psalm 27:10

   When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

3. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

   Matthew 6:9

   Jesus taught his disciples to pray, Our Father which art in heaven.

4. If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

   Matthew 7:11

   If earthly fathers give good gifts, how much more your Father which is in heaven.

5. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

   1 John 3:1

   Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.

6. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

   2 Corinthians 6:18

   I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters.