Here are 47 Bible verses about father’s love from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.
1 John 4:19 KJV
We love him, because he first loved us.
Matthew 19:19 KJV
Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
John 13:3 KJV
Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;
2 Corinthians 6:18 KJV
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
1 John 2:15 KJV
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
John 5:42 KJV
But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
Jude 1:1 KJV
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
John 14:28 KJV
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
Proverbs 4:3 KJV
For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
Malachi 4:6 KJV
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Ephesians 4:6 KJV
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
1 John 4:7 KJV
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Luke 6:36 KJV
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
John 17:23 KJV
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
John 15:9 KJV
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
John 8:42 KJV
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Matthew 10:37 KJV
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
John 17:26 KJV
And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
1 John 4:8 KJV
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 3:1 KJV
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Matthew 5:48 KJV
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
John 3:35 KJV
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
John 14:23 KJV
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
John 16:28 KJV
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
John 14:31 KJV
But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
Ephesians 6:23 KJV
Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
John 16:3 KJV
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
John 14:24 KJV
He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
John 5:43 KJV
I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Hebrews 12:9 KJV
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
1 Thessalonians 1:3 KJV
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
1 John 2:23 KJV
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
1 John 4:16 KJV
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
John 10:17 KJV
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
John 3:16 KJV
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 John 4:9 KJV
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
2 John 1:3 KJV
Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
John 17:24 KJV
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
1 John 4:14 KJV
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
Deuteronomy 4:37 KJV
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
1 John 5:1 KJV
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
John 10:30 KJV
I and my Father are one.
1 John 3:10 KJV
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
John 16:27 KJV
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Proverbs 3:12 KJV
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Matthew 7:11 KJV
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
John 16:26 KJV
At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
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