35 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 the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to them that ask him.

and will be to you a father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Behold, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Fathers, be not fault-finding with your children, that they be not discouraged.

And what father is there of you, who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? or if he asks also for a fish, will for a fish give him a serpent?

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

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The world therefore knows us not, because it knew him not.

By this are the children of God manifest, and the children of the devil; no one that does not righteousness is of God, and no one that loves not his brother.

Be therefore perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Fear not, little flock, for your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

All good giving, and every perfect gift, comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning.

Or is there any man of you, who, if his son asks bread of him, will give him a stone?

But take heed not to perform your righteousness before men, to be seen by them; otherwise indeed, you have no reward from your Father in heaven.

I and the Father are one.

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

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

And, fathers, provoke not your children, but bring them up in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

For as the Father has life in himself, so has he also given to the Son to have life in himself;

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

Children, obey [your] parents in all things; for this is well pleasing in the Lord.

And call no man your father on the earth, for one is your heavenly Father.

And Jesus said to him, Why do you call me good? none is good but one, God.

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

Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

And Jesus said to him, Why do you call me good? There is none good but one, God.

If any one comes to me, and hates not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and still more his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

that it may be well with you, and you shall live long in the land.

for it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaks in you.

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

that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and rains on the just and unjust.

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

He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

And a brother shall deliver a brother to death, and a father a son; and children shall rise up against their parents and put them to death;

But I say, that as long as the heir is a child, he differs not from a servant, though he is lord of all,