48 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

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

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him?

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice; and he who fathers a wise child shall have joy from him.

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

Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they be discouraged.

For what father of you, if the son asks for bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake for a fish?

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

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the Devil: everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, also he who does not love his brother.

Therefore be perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.

Do not fear, 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 nor shadow of turning.

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

Take heed that you do not do your merciful deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in Heaven.

If a man fathers a hundred, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also is for him no burial; I say, a miscarriage is better than he.

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

I and the Father are one!

Sons of sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

Let your light so shine before men that they may 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 provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has given to the Son to have life within Himself,

In His holy dwelling God is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows.

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to 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 no one your father on the earth, for One is your Father in Heaven.

And Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me good? No one is good except one, God.

Honor your 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. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

And Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me good? None is good except One, God.

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

Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have proclaimed to them, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil doings. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says Jehovah.

so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother;

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

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you, and am no more worthy to be called your son.

so that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven. For He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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

And do not be like your fathers and like your brothers who sinned against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and He made them for a horror, as you see.

I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

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

for whom Jehovah loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

But I say, Over so long a time the heir is an infant, he does not differ from a slave, though being lord of all;