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 will 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 will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him.

“And I will be a father to you,
And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”
Says the Lord Almighty.

Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

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

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason 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 obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.

Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom.

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

Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

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

I and the Father are one.”

Grandchildren are the crown of old men,
And the glory of sons is their fathers.

The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

Let your light shine before men in such a way 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.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.

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, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

“Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.

Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

And 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 had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject 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, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

“Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.”’ But they did not listen or give heed to Me,” declares the Lord.

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

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction
And do not forsake your mother’s teaching;

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

And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

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

Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their fathers, so that He made them a horror, as you see.

I will get up and go to my father, and will 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.

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

For whom the Lord loves He reproves,
Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is owner of everything,