Fathers Day

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

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

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

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: — read the full passage →

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

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

Then I said to you, “Don’t dread, neither be afraid of them. — read the full passage →

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →

Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? — read the full passage →

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. — read the full passage →

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

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

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. — read the full passage →

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; — read the full passage →

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, — read the full passage →

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

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

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

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; — read the full passage →

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; — read the full passage →

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table. — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

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.

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

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

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

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. — read the full passage →

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old. — read the full passage →

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”

Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths. — read the full passage →

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.