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19 Bible Verses About Fatherhood, God as Father and Raising Children

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Summary

  • The only two instructions the New Testament addresses to fathers are both negative: do not exasperate, do not embitter.
  • Paul leaves Abba, the Aramaic word for father, untranslated in Romans 8:15, and uses it again in Galatians 4:6.
  • In Luke 11:13 Jesus calls human fathers evil and argues from their generosity anyway.
  • 2 Corinthians 12:14 says parents should save for their children, and Paul uses it to explain why he takes no money from Corinth.
  • In 1 Corinthians 4:15 Paul separates guardians from fathers and calls himself the Corinthians’ father through the gospel.

The Bible says more about God as a father than about how to be one. Only two passages give instructions addressed to fathers, and both open with a warning: do not exasperate your children (Ephesians 6:4), do not embitter them (Colossians 3:21). Both then tell fathers to bring their children up in the Lord. Around those two sentences Scripture sets provision (1 Timothy 5:8), teaching at home (Deuteronomy 6:6-7), discipline (Proverbs 29:17) and what a father leaves behind. The nineteen…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

The household codes containing both instructions to fathers are at Ephesians 6:4 and Colossians 3:21.

Abba is left untranslated at Romans 8:15, Galatians 4:6 and Mark 14:36.

Human fathers disciplining as they thought best is at Hebrews 12:10.

The widows Paul has in view at 1 Timothy 5:8 are the subject of 1 Timothy 5:3-16.

Paul compares himself to a nursing mother at 1 Thessalonians 2:7.

The arrangement made from the cross is at John 19:26-27.

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