48 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

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

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?

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

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and'such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

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.

Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father 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, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.

Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone;

Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

I and the Father are one.

Children's children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Even so 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, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

For as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also 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, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, even he who is in heaven.

And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good save one, even God.

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

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, even God.

If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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

that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

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

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.

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

that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

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

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

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.

And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

For whom Jehovah loveth he reproveth; Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all;