35 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

"If you give good gifts to your children, how much more shall the Father who is in heaven give the Holy spirit to those that ask him!"

"If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him?

then I will receive you and will be to you a Father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Fathers, do not harass your children, lest you make them spiritless.

"What father is there among you who, if his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish will give him instead a serpent?

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

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God!" And that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not know him.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

"You then must be perfect, as your heavenly Father 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 boon is from above, and is ever coming down to us from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of eclipse.

"What man of you is there who, when his son asks a loaf, will give him a stone?

"Be careful not to do your good deeds in the sight of men, in order to be observed by them. If you do, you have no reward with your heavenly Father.

"I and my Father are one."

"So let your light shine before men that they may see good you do, and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

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

And you fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up in the nature and admonition of the Lord.

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

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 everything, for this is well pleasing in Christians.

"and call no one 'Father' on earth, for One is your Father in heaven.

Jesus said to him. "Why do you call me 'good'? No one is good save one, God himself.

Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise attached),

Furthermore, our earthly fathers used to discipline us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

"Why are you calling me 'good'?" said Jesus to him; "no one is good but God.

"If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

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

"For it will not be you who is speaking, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

"The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight and am no more worthy to be called your son.'

"So you will become sons of your heavenly Father; for he makes his sun to rise upon sinners as well as saints, and sends rain upon the unjust and the just.

"'I will rise and go to my father, and say to him. "Father, I have sinned against Heaven and in your sight,

"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 betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against their parents and put them to death.

What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;