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 those 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 the heavens give good things to those that ask him?

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begets a wise child shall have joy with him.

and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not your things, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Fathers, provoke not your children lest they become disheartened.

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

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

Behold, what charity the Father has given us, that we should be called the sons of God; therefore the world does not know us, because it does not know him.

In this the sons of God are manifest, and the sons of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness and that loves not his brother is not of God.

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in the heavens 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 is no variableness neither shadow of turning.

Or what man is there of you, whom, if his son asks for bread, will he give him a stone?

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

If a man begets a hundred sons and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his soul is not filled with good and also that he have no burial; I say that an aborted birth is better than he.

The wise son makes a glad father, but the foolish man despises his mother.

I and my Father are one.

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

A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is sadness unto his mother.

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

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

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

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

A father of the fatherless and a defender of the widows is God in his holy habitation.

Love not the world neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.

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

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

And call no one your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens.

And Jesus said unto him, Why dost thou call me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

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

Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; is it not much better to be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?

And Jesus said unto him, Why dost thou call me good? No one is good except one, that is, God.

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Do not be as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, said the LORD.

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

Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be lengthened upon the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.

My son, hearken unto the chastening of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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

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

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

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

Do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who rebelled against the LORD God of their fathers and he gave them over 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 before thee

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.

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

For the LORD chastens whom he loves and delights in, even as a father to his son.

Now I say That the heir, as long as he is a child differs in nothing from a slave, though he be lord of all,