35 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who continue to ask Him?"

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your heavenly Father give what is good to those who keep on asking Him?

I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters of mine,' The Lord Almighty said."

It is now the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I will never ask you for financial support, for it is not your money but you yourselves that I want; for children are not by duty bound to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, stop exasperating your children, so as to keep them from losing heart.

Now is there a father among you who, if his son asks him for a fish, will give him a snake instead?

one God and Father of all, who is over us all, who pervades us all, and who is within us all.

See what wonderful love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called God's children, and that is what we are! This is why the world does not know what we are, because it has never come to know Him.

This is the way to distinguish God's children from the devil's children. No one who fails to do right is God's child, and no one who fails to love his brother.

So you, my followers, ought to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is."

Stop being afraid, my little flock, for your Father has gladly chosen to give you the kingdom.

Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, in whom there is no variation or changing shadow.

What human father among you, when his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

"Take care not to do your good deeds in public, to attract the attention of people; if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

The Father and I are one."

Let your light shine before people in such a way that they may see your good deeds, and praise your Father in heaven.

Children, obey your parents, for this is right.

You parents, too, must stop exasperating your children, but continue to bring them up with the sort of education and counsel the Lord approves.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

Children, practice obedience to your parents in everything, for this is acceptable in Christians.

And you must not call anyone on earth 'father,' for the Heavenly One is your Father.

And Jesus answered him, "Why do you call me perfectly good? No one is perfectly good but God Himself.

"You must honor your father and mother" -- this is the first commandment, with a promise to make it good

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we used to treat them with respect; how much more cheerfully should we submit to the Father of our spirits, and live!

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me perfectly good? No one is perfectly good but God Himself.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

"so that you may prosper and live a long life on earth."

For it is not you who are speaking, but the Spirit of your Father that is speaking through you.

His son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your opinion; I no longer deserve to be called your son; just treat me like one of your hired men.'

to prove that you are sons of your Father in heaven, for He makes His sun rise on bad as well as good people, and makes the rain come down on doers of right and of wrong alike.

I will get up and go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your opinion;

Anybody who loves father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me,

One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents, and will have them put to death.

I mean this: As long as the heir is under age he is not a whit better off than a slave, although he is heir of all the property,