Bible Verses About Being a Dad

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

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

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

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

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

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

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

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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

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

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

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.

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

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.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

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.

He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

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

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: