100 Bible Verses about Fathers And Daughters

2 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 790 helpful votes

And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 684 helpful votes

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

Luke 12:53 ESV / 611 helpful votes

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

Jeremiah 29:6 ESV / 600 helpful votes

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.

Ezekiel 16:44 ESV / 581 helpful votes

“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 574 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Psalm 144:12 ESV / 565 helpful votes

May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 549 helpful votes

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 520 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 517 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 514 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 507 helpful votes

And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”

Judges 12:9 ESV / 461 helpful votes

He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

Isaiah 4:4 ESV / 458 helpful votes

When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.

Ezekiel 16:53 ESV / 454 helpful votes

“I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst,

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 453 helpful votes

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

Genesis 19:33 ESV / 451 helpful votes

So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 450 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

3 John 1:4 ESV / 429 helpful votes

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Ezekiel 16:57 ESV / 427 helpful votes

Before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you.

Genesis 19:36 ESV / 416 helpful votes

Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

Esther 2:7 ESV / 402 helpful votes

He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

Genesis 19:8 ESV / 398 helpful votes

Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.”

Numbers 6:24-26 ESV / 396 helpful votes

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

Genesis 19:38 ESV / 396 helpful votes

The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites to this day.

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 395 helpful votes

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

Leviticus 18:9 ESV / 393 helpful votes

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.

Genesis 19:30 ESV / 392 helpful votes

Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

Numbers 30:16 ESV / 391 helpful votes

These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses about a man and his wife and about a father and his daughter while she is in her youth within her father's house.

Genesis 19:35 ESV / 387 helpful votes

So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

Deuteronomy 22:21 ESV / 382 helpful votes

Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

1 Corinthians 4:17 ESV / 379 helpful votes

That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

Proverbs 3:12 ESV / 373 helpful votes

For the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Numbers 26:33 ESV / 368 helpful votes

Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters. And the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Genesis 31:50 ESV / 368 helpful votes

If you oppress my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, God is witness between you and me.”

Jeremiah 16:3 ESV / 367 helpful votes

For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who fathered them in this land:

Nehemiah 10:30 ESV / 365 helpful votes

We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.

Genesis 34:9 ESV / 365 helpful votes

Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Nehemiah 5:5 ESV / 364 helpful votes

Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Judges 3:6 ESV / 363 helpful votes

And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.

Nehemiah 13:25 ESV / 362 helpful votes

And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

Genesis 34:16 ESV / 362 helpful votes

Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.

Genesis 31:43 ESV / 362 helpful votes

Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne?

Daniel 11:24 ESV / 361 helpful votes

Without warning he shall come into the richest parts of the province, and he shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathers' fathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time.

Jeremiah 3:24 ESV / 361 helpful votes

“But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

2 Chronicles 29:9 ESV / 361 helpful votes

For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

2 Samuel 1:20 ESV / 361 helpful votes

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

Judges 21:21 ESV / 361 helpful votes

And watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

Joshua 17:3 ESV / 361 helpful votes

Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters, and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Exodus 6:25 ESV / 361 helpful votes

Eleazar, Aaron's son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites by their clans.

Genesis 27:46 ESV / 361 helpful votes

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 361 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

John 1:12 ESV / 354 helpful votes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 352 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Leviticus 18:6 ESV / 347 helpful votes

“None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord.

Micah 7:6 ESV / 344 helpful votes

For the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

Leviticus 18:17 ESV / 341 helpful votes

You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 338 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Galatians 3:26 ESV / 334 helpful votes

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

Matthew 10:35 ESV / 326 helpful votes

For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 326 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

1 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 324 helpful votes

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.

Acts 21:9 ESV / 324 helpful votes

He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied.

Ruth 3:10 ESV / 324 helpful votes

And he said, “May you be blessed by the Lord, my daughter. You have made this last kindness greater than the first in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.

Numbers 30:3-5 ESV / 324 helpful votes

“If a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father's house in her youth, and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the Lord will forgive her, because her father opposed her.

Isaiah 32:9 ESV / 323 helpful votes

Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.

Genesis 6:2 ESV / 323 helpful votes

The sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.

Isaiah 49:22 ESV / 322 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

Proverbs 31:30-31 ESV / 319 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.

Ephesians 1:16-17 ESV / 316 helpful votes

I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 314 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Acts 21:8-9 ESV / 312 helpful votes

On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied.

Leviticus 18:8 ESV / 308 helpful votes

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.

Acts 21:2 ESV / 298 helpful votes

And having found a ship crossing to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 298 helpful votes

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

Leviticus 18:15 ESV / 293 helpful votes

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

Acts 21:8 ESV / 292 helpful votes

On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

Leviticus 18:10 ESV / 292 helpful votes

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.

Psalm 45:10 ESV / 288 helpful votes

Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father's house,

Genesis 19:31 ESV / 284 helpful votes

And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

Romans 8:19 ESV / 282 helpful votes

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

Leviticus 18:24 ESV / 274 helpful votes

“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,

Isaiah 54:13 ESV / 272 helpful votes

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.

Leviticus 18:28 ESV / 272 helpful votes

Lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 263 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 254 helpful votes

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Genesis 19:30-38 ESV / 232 helpful votes

Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose. The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” ...

Proverbs 14:26 ESV / 231 helpful votes

In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.

Hebrews 12:7 ESV / 228 helpful votes

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Proverbs 23:24 ESV / 224 helpful votes

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Luke 15:20 ESV / 220 helpful votes

And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

2 Samuel 7:14-15 ESV / 199 helpful votes

I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 195 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 186 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 4:11-12 ESV / 177 helpful votes

I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble.

Genesis 19:34 ESV / 177 helpful votes

The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.”

2 Thessalonians 3:3 ESV / 165 helpful votes

But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 158 helpful votes

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 154 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 153 helpful votes

My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

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