47 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more the Father from heaven will give Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

If ye therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father in the heavens will give good things to those who ask him?

and will be for a Father to you, and ye will be for sons and daughters to me, says Lord Almighty.

Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.

And which father of you, if the son will ask a loaf, will give him a stone, or also if a fish, in place of a fish will give him a serpent?

one God and Father of all. He is over all, and through all, and in us all.

Behold what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God. Because of this the world does not know you, because it did not know him.

By this the children of God are visible, and the children of the devil. Every man not doing righteousness is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother.

Ye therefore shall be perfect, even as your Father in the heavens is perfect.

Fear not, little flock, because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

Every good gift and every perfect endowment is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation nor shadow of turning.

Or what man is there of you, who, if his son may ask for bread, will give him a stone,

Be careful not to do your charity before men in order to be seen by them, otherwise ye have no reward from your Father in the heavens.

If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

I and the Father are one.

Son's sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Thus your light should shine before men, so that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father in the heavens.

Children, obey your parents in Lord, for this is right.

And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of Lord.

For as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to the Son to have life in himself.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in Lord.

The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, neither shall the sons be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

And do not designate a father of you upon the earth, for one is your Father, he in the heavens.

And Jesus said to him, Why do thou call me good? None is good except one, God.

Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise,

Besides, we indeed have had chastisers--the fathers of our flesh--and we were turned around. Shall we not much more be subordinate to the Father of the spirits, and we will live?

And Jesus said to him, Why do thou call me good? None is good except one, God.

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings, but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, says LORD.

so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth.

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

For ye are not who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking in you.

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight. I am no more worthy to be called thy son.

so that ye may become sons of your Father in the heavens, because he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and makes rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

And be ye not like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against LORD, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

After rising, I will go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight.

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

And a brother will deliver up a brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and condemn them to death.

For whom LORD loves he reproves, {and he whips every son whom he receives (LXX/NT)}.

But I say the heir, for as long a time as he is a child, differs nothing from a bondman though he is lord of all.