Fathers play a pivotal role in the family and often the success of the father determines the success of the family. What Bible verses show us just how important fathers are in the family?
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. | Psalm 103:13
And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. | Matthew 23:9
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous. | Proverbs 13:22
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. | Joshua 24:15
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father! | Galatians 4:6
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. | Deuteronomy 6:6-9
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.| Proverbs 19:18
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. | Ephesians 6:4
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. | Genesis 18:19
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. | Colossians 3:21
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land. | Psalm 68:5-6
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 3:16
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. | Romans 8:14
For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. | 1 Corinthians 3:11
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. | Proverbs 23:22
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.| Proverbs 3:11-12
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. | Matthew 6:9
The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him! | Proverbs 20:7
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. | Proverbs 10:1
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. | Proverbs 22:6
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. | Proverbs 10:1
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. | Proverbs 13:24
In last this one tells us that, If you are not saved then God the Father is not your Father at all but you are actually children of the Devil.