48 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

If therefore ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

If therefore ye, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?

The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise son shall have joy of him:

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

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

Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.

But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and the father shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?

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

See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, and he who does not love his brother.

Be ye therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Fear not, little flock, for it has been the good pleasure of your Father to give you the kingdom.

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

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

Take heed not to do your alms before men to be seen of them, otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens.

If a man beget a hundred sons, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say 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 grief of his mother.

Let your light thus shine before men, so that they may see your upright works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

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

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

For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given 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, nor the things in the world. If any one 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 sons, neither shall the sons be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

And call not any one your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, he who is in the heavens.

But Jesus said to him, Why callest thou me good? no one is good but one, that is God.

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

Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

But Jesus said to him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, God.

If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

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

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

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

For ye are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you.

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.

that ye may be the sons of your Father who is in the heavens; for he makes his sun rise on evil and good, and sends rain on just and unjust.

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

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

I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;

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.

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;

for whom Jehovah loveth he chasteneth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;