1206 verses about Father

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

Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.

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

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, “It’s not wrong.” He is a partner with a destroyer.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.

and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’”

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘To what have you given birth?’”

Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

who tell wood, ‘You are my father;’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me:’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us.’

Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t judge the right of the needy.

if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says Yahweh: “I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.”’”

For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:

Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.

“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

who show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name;

We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;

but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

“The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment; but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking, and you have not listened to me.

The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me.”’