Bible Verses About Fathers and Daughters
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for fathers and daughters, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 38,056 votes, led by 2 Corinthians 6:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Fathers and Daughters
2 Corinthians 6:18790 votes
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Proverbs 22:6683 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Luke 12:53611 votes
The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Jeremiah 29:6600 votes
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Ezekiel 16:44581 votes
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Ephesians 6:4574 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Psalms 144:12567 votes
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
Proverbs 23:22549 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Psalms 127:3-5521 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Revelation 11:1-19517 votes
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
Ephesians 6:1-3514 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Malachi 4:6507 votes
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.
Judges 12:9461 votes
And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
Isaiah 4:4458 votes
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Ezekiel 16:53454 votes
When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
Proverbs 31:25453 votes
Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
Genesis 19:33451 votes
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Colossians 3:21450 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
3 John 1:4429 votes
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
Ezekiel 16:57427 votes
Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
Genesis 19:36416 votes
Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
Esther 2:7401 votes
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Genesis 19:8399 votes
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
Numbers 6:24-26397 votes
The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:
Genesis 19:38396 votes
And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben–ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
What does the Bible say about fathers and daughters?
Readers most often cite 2 Corinthians 6:18 on the subject of fathers and daughters. Across 38,056 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 22:6, Luke 12:53, Jeremiah 29:6. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.