48 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?

If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?

The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all.

This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.

And which of you, being a father, will give a stone to his son, who makes request for bread? or for a fish, will give him a snake?

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

See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.

Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

Or which of you, if his son makes a request for bread, will give him a stone?

Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

I and my Father are one.

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Children, do the orders of your fathers and mothers in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers: every man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.

And give no man the name of father on earth: because one is your Father, who is in heaven.

And Jesus said to him, Why do you say I am good? no one is good but one, and that is God.

Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

And Jesus said to him, Why do you say that I am good? No one is good, but only God.

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.

So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

Because it is not you who say the words, but the Spirit of your Father in you.

And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.

So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.

But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;