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 which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of 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 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 to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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 manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore 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.

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven 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 cometh 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 ask bread, will he give him a stone?

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that 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 my 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.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

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 nurture and admonition of the Lord.

For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son 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 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: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

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

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

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected 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, that is, God.

If any man come to me, and hate not his 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 have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

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

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD 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 which speaketh in you.

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

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on 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, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore 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 before thee,

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

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;