17 Bible Verses About Spiritual Fathers

Here are 17 Bible verses about spiritual fathers from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.

Genesis 4:21 KJV

And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

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Job 29:16 KJV

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

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1 Timothy 5:1 KJV

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

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1 John 2:13 KJV

I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

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Ezekiel 16:45 KJV

Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

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Ezekiel 16:3 KJV

And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

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Matthew 23:9 KJV

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

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Genesis 4:20 KJV

And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

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Judges 17:10 KJV

And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

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Jeremiah 2:27 KJV

Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

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Genesis 45:8 KJV

So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

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1 Corinthians 4:15 KJV

For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

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1 John 2:14 KJV

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

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Isaiah 22:21 KJV

And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

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Judges 18:19 KJV

And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

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2 Kings 2:12 KJV

And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

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1 Thessalonians 2:11 KJV

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

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