Fathers Are

Fathers are to be honored, respected, and obeyed -- Honor and respect your fathers by obeying them (as long their commands are not against God's commands) and you are promised to "live a long life on the earth."


Ephesians 6:1-3 (NIV)
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— “that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”


Colossians 3:20 (NIV)
Children, obey your parents in everything [as long as their commands do not contradict or go against God's commands], for this pleases the Lord.

Fathers are to discipline their children -- Do not complain when your father disciplines you because your father should discipline you out of love, and because he is commanded to do so by God.

Deuteronomy 8:5 (NIV)

Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

1 Timothy 3:4 (NIV)

He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)

Fathers are to instruct their children -- We are to be trained by our fathers so that we may become strong and mature Christians.


Ephesians 6:4 (NIV)
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.


Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Fathers are to love their children -- Fathers are told in the Bible to love their children.


Psalm 103:13 (NIV)

As a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.

God as our Heavenly "Father" -- We are all called the "children" of God. The Bible also shows how God can have similar roles to human fathers.


1 John 3:1–2 (NIV)
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.


Romans 8:16-17 (NIV)
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.


Proverbs 3:11-12 (NIV)
My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.

Happy Fathers day especially to the greatest Father, our Father in Heaven, Happy Fathers Day to All Fathers.  A blessed day to all.