20 Bible Verses For Father’ Day

Dad, your job is hard with a capital H. We’ve compiled some Bible verses for Father’s Day, sure to encourage you in your task.

Because here is the truth: you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders! Your little ones depend on you for security, your wives look to you for support and comfort, and your brothers look to you for leadership. Thank God He built you for the task at hand.

This June, we are reminded how much you do on a daily basis and how much you are not acknowledged for all the work you put in outside of your home’s walls, as well as within them. Let me be the first to say, Dad, Poppos, poppos, uncs who have stepped up and everyone else in between who has taken on the role of father for the next generation- we see you. We are blessed to have you, and we ask the Lord to strengthen you in all you do. May these verses serve you well.

1. Proverbs 22:6: Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
2. Ephesians 6:4: And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
3. Colossians 3:21: Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
4. Deuteronomy 6:6-7: And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children…
5. Joshua 24:15: But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
6. Psalm 103:13: Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
7. Proverbs 20:7: The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
8. 1 Corinthians 16:13-14: Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity.
9. Micah 6:8: He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
10. James 1:19: Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
11. Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
12. Psalm 127:3: Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
13. Isaiah 40:29: He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
14. Galatians 6:9: And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
15. Philippians 4:6-7: Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
16. 1 Timothy 5:8: 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.
17. Proverbs 4:1: Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
18. Hebrews 12:7: If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
19. Matthew 5:16: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
20. 3 John 1:4: I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.