Dads play no small role in the lives of their children and who they grow up to be. On the third Sunday in June, it’s time to celebrate them. To make Dad feel extra special this year, you might select just the right gift (perhaps a book?) or make a DIY one for him. Or you can spend quality time together doing something he enjoys, perhaps listening to music. But what might mean more to him than all of that is a verse of Scripture.
Peruse the list of Father’s Day Bible verses below to find one that’s a sincere reflection of what a blessing your father or father figure is to you, or the love that bonds the two of you together. You could write one in a card (you can print one for free!) to accompany his gift and include some personal words of your own.
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Bible Verses About Fathers Love
- Ephesians 6:4: “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
- Proverbs 1:8: “Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.”
- 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.”
- Psalm 103:13: “As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.”
- Proverbs 22:6: “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”
- 2 Samuel 7:14-15: “I will be a father to him, and he’ll be a son to me. When he does wrong, I’ll discipline him in the usual ways, the pitfalls and obstacles of this mortal life. But I’ll never remove my gracious love from him.”
- Proverbs 23:22: “Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”
- Proverbs 23:24: “The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.”
- Psalm 32:7-8: “You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.”
- Proverbs 4:11-12: “I will guide you in the way of wisdom and I will lead you in upright paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hampered, and when you run, you will not stumble.”
- Luke 15:20: “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.”
- Deuteronomy 1:31: “There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”
- Malachi 4:6: “He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.”
- Hebrews 12:7: “Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?”
Bible Verses About Husbands
- Ephesians 5:28-29: “In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.”
- 1 Corinthians 16:14: “Do everything in love.”
- Proverbs 30:18-19: “There are three things that amaze me—no, four things that I don’t understand: how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman.”
- 1 Peter 3:7: “In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:14: “For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.”
- 1 Peter 4:8: “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
- Ecclesiastes 9:9: “Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.”
- Mark 10:9: “Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Bible Verse About Fathers Love For His Daughter
Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 17 helpful votes
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! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 14 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …
Colossians 3:21 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Psalm 103:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Romans 15:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Malachi 4:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
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.”
Proverbs 20:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Hebrews 12:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
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?
Galatians 3:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),
2 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
Bible Verses aboutFathers And Sons
John 5:19 ESV / 273 helpful votes
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 139 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Malachi 4:5-6 ESV / 98 helpful votes
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 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.”
John 3:35 ESV / 74 helpful votes
The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.
Psalm 127:1-5 ESV / 72 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. 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! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 69 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
John 10:30 ESV / 62 helpful votes
I and the Father are one.”
Matthew 3:17 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
Proverbs 23:24 ESV / 51 helpful votes
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
Colossians 3:21 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Proverbs 24:1-34 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them, for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble. By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might, …
Romans 8:14 ESV / 42 helpful votes
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Proverbs 3:12 ESV / 41 helpful votes
For the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
Hebrews 1:6 ESV / 38 helpful votes
And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”
Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
John 5:22 ESV / 34 helpful votes
The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
Galatians 6:7 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Psalm 103:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
Galatians 6:8 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Fathers Teach Your Sons Scripture
Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Matthew 6:20-21But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Ezekiel 18:1-32
The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’? As I live, declares the Lord God, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die. “If a man is righteous and does what is just and right— …
Isaiah 38:19
The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.
Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
Proverbs 29:15
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Proverbs 23:13-15
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol. My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 19:18
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.
Bible Verses About Father and Son Relationships
Proverbs 17:27
Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
Proverbs 3:11-12
My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Proverbs 13:24
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Colossians 3:21
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Psalm 103:13
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
Proverbs 1:8
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
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. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Hebrews 12:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
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?
2 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 6:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),
Malachi 4:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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.”
Proverbs 23:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
Proverbs 22:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. …
Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.
Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Joshua 24:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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.”
Exodus 20:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
1 Timothy 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Colossians 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Ephesians 5:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 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. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. …
Leviticus 19:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Genesis 18:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
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.”
James 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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.
Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Hebrews 12:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. …
Titus 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
2 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
2 Timothy 1:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus, To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well. …
1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, …
Philippians 2:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, …
Ephesians 5:31-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 4:29-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Luke 15:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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.
Mark 12:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Matthew 7:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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!
