35 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

If, then, you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

If then you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?

and I will be to you a father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Behold, I am ready the third time to come to you, and I will not burden you: for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be disheartened.

If a son ask bread of any one of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he, instead of a fish, give him a serpent?

one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in you all.

Behold, how great love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the children of God! For this reason, the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

By this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whoever does not work righteousness is not of God; neither is he that loves not his brother.

Be you therefore perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor slightest trace of turning.

What man is there of you, of whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

Beware of doing your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

I and my Father are one.

In this way let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

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

And you fathers, do not provoke your children to anger: but bring them up in the instruction and discipline of the Lord.

For as the Father has life in himself, so has he given to the Son also to have life in himself;

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

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is wellpleasing to the Lord.

And call no man on earth your father; for one is your Father, who is in heaven.

Jesus said to him: Why do you call me good? None is good but one, that is God.

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

So, then, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?

And Jesus said to him: Why do you call me good? None is good but one, that is God.

If any one comes to me, and hates not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his own life also, he can not be my disciple.

that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

for it is not you that speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father that speaks in you.

But his son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.

that you may be the sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun to rise upon the evil and the good, and causes it to rain on the just and on the unjust.

I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight,

He that loves father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me:

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and children will rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

But I say, that the heir, as long as he is a minor, differs in no respect from a servant, though he is owner of all;