64 Verses on the Fatherhood of God

Often we can take it for granted that God is our Father, and few people stop to think what this name really means. Many have had cruel, abusive or absent fathers, so how can they relate to the God of the universes using the same name as someone who has hurt them? Learn how Jesus made the way for us to be friends again with the Father and why we can’t just be servants or friends of God once we acknowledge He is Lord. 

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64 Verses on the Fatherhood of God

Ephesians 4:6

one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.

1 Corinthians 8:6

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

Deuteronomy 32:6

“Do you thus repay the Lord,

O foolish and unwise people?

Is not He your Father who has bought you?

He has made you and established you.

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O Lord, You are our Father,

We are the clay, and You our potter;

And all of us are the work of Your hand.

Acts 17:24-28

The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a youth I loved him,

And out of Egypt I called My son.

Psalm 103:13

Just as a father has compassion on his children,

So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

Jeremiah 3:19

“Then I said,

‘How I would set you among My sons

And give you a pleasant land,

The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’

And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father,

And not turn away from following Me.’

2 Corinthians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,

Is God in His holy habitation.

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

Luke 12:29-31

And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying. For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek; but your Father knows that you need these things. But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you.

Matthew 7:11

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

Luke 11:13

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?”

Deuteronomy 8:5

Thus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.

Proverbs 3:11-12

My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord

Or loathe His reproof,

For whom the Lord loves He reproves,

Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

Hebrews 12:5-6

and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,

Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;

For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines,

And He scourges every son whom He receives.”

Matthew 3:17

and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”

Mark 1:11

and a voice came out of the heavens: “You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.”

Luke 3:22

and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, “You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.”

Matthew 11:27

All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

Luke 2:49

And He said to them, “Why is it that you were looking for Me? Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”

John 5:17-18

But He answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.” For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

John 17:11

I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are.

John 20:17

Jesus *said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’”

Romans 15:6

so that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 John 1:3

what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.

Jeremiah 31:9

“With weeping they will come,

And by supplication I will lead them;

I will make them walk by streams of waters,

On a straight path in which they will not stumble;

For I am a father to Israel,

And Ephraim is My firstborn.”

Exodus 4:22

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is My son, My firstborn.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

Isaiah 63:16

For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us

And Israel does not recognize us.

You, O Lord, are our Father,

Our Redeemer from of old is Your name.

Malachi 2:10

“Do we not all have one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously each against his brother so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

2 Samuel 7:13-14

He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men,

1 Chronicles 17:12-13

He shall build for Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be his father and he shall be My son; and I will not take My lovingkindness away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.

Psalm 2:7

“I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord:

He said to Me, ‘You are My Son,

Today I have begotten You.

Psalm 89:26-27

“He will cry to Me, ‘You are my Father,

My God, and the rock of my salvation.’

“I also shall make him My firstborn,

The highest of the kings of the earth.

Matthew 6:9

“Pray, then, in this way:

‘Our Father who is in heaven,

Hallowed be Your name.

Luke 11:2

And He said to them, “When you pray, say:

‘Father, hallowed be Your name.

Your kingdom come.

2 Corinthians 6:18

“And I will be a father to you,

And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”

Says the Lord Almighty.

Galatians 3:26

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

1 John 2:13

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.

John 1:12-13

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

Romans 8:14-17

For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,

Galatians 4:5-7

so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

1 John 3:1

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

Matthew 5:48

Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Ephesians 4:3-6

being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Matthew 23:9

Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

Ephesians 3:14-15

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,

Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.”

Mark 3:35

For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother.”

Luke 8:21

But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”

Romans 8:29

For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;

Hebrews 2:11

For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Romans 8:17

and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

Luke 12:32

Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom.

Galatians 3:29

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.

Colossians 1:12

giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.

Titus 3:7

so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

1 Peter 1:17

If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;

Ephesians 3:14

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?

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