48 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

The father of a righteous son will rejoice greatly,
and one who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

I will be a Father to you,
and you will be sons and daughters to Me,
says the Lord Almighty.

Now I am ready to come to you this third time. I will not burden you, for I am not seeking what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so they won’t become discouraged.

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

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

Look at how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know Him.

This is how God’s children—and the Devil’s children—are made evident.

Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother.

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, because your Father delights to give you the kingdom.

Every generous act and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights; with Him there is no variation or shadow cast by turning.

What man among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people, to be seen by them. Otherwise, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.

The Father and I are one.”

Grandchildren are the crown of the elderly,
and the pride of sons is their fathers.

Solomon’s proverbs:

A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son, heartache to his mother.

In the same way, let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.

Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

God in His holy dwelling is
a father of the fatherless
and a champion of widows.

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

“Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin.

Do not call anyone on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is in heaven.

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

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

Furthermore, we had natural fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn’t we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to Me”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.

Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,

because you are not speaking, but the Spirit of your Father is speaking through you.

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I’m no longer worthy to be called your son.’

so that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. For He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

A foolish son is grief to his father
and bitterness to the one who bore him.

Don’t be like your fathers and your brothers who were unfaithful to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors so that He made them an object of horror as you yourselves see.

I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.

The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will even rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

for the Lord disciplines the one He loves,
just as a father, the son he delights in.

Now I say that as long as the heir is a child, he differs in no way from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.