48 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

Therefore if you, [although you] are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"

Therefore if you, [although you] are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?

The father of the righteous will surely rejoice; he who bears a wise person will be happy with him.

and I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me," says the all-powerful Lord.

Behold, this third [time] I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden [to you]. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged.

But what father from among you, [if his] son will ask for a fish, instead of 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 sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother.

Therefore you be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

"Do not be afraid, little flock, because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.

Or what man is [there] among you, [if] his son will ask him [for] bread, will give him a stone?

"And take care not to practice your righteousness before people to be seen by them; {otherwise} you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Even if a man fathers a hundred [children] and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart is not satisfied with {his prosperity} and {he does not receive a proper burial}, I deem the stillborn better than him.

A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a {foolish person}, he despises his mother.

The Father and I are one."

The crown of the elderly [are] {grandchildren}, and the glory of children [is] their fathers.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.

In the [same] way let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

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

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

For just as the Father has life in himself, thus also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself.

A father to orphans and a judge for widows [is] God in his holy habitation.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

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

"Fathers shall not be put to death because of [their] children, and children shall not be put to death because of [their] fathers; each one shall be put to death for his [own] sin.

And do not call [anyone] your father on earth, for one is your heavenly Father.

So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one [is] good except God alone.

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

Furthermore, we have had {our earthly fathers} who disciplined [us], and we respected [them]. Will we not much rather subject ourselves to the Father of spirits and live?

And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one [is] good except God alone.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, {he cannot be} my disciple.

"Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Return from your evil ways and your evil deeds!" ' But they did not hear and they did not pay attention to me," {declares} Yahweh.

"in order that it may be well with you, and you may {live a long time} on the earth."

"Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving you.

My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings,

For you are not the ones who are speaking, but the Spirit of your Father [who is] speaking through you.

And [his] son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and {in your sight}! I am no longer worthy to be called your son!'

in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, because he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust.

A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who acted unfaithfully before Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them as a desolation, as you see.

I will set out [and] go to my father and will say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and {in your sight}!

The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

"And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death,

because whomever Yahweh will love, he will rebuke, as a father delights in his son.

Now I say, for as long a time [as] the heir is a child, [he is] no different from a slave, [although he] is master of everything,