35 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

If you then, with all your human frailty, know how to give your children gifts that are good for them, how much more certainly will your Father who is in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"

If you then, imperfect as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

and you shall be My sons and daughters,' says the Lord the Ruler of all."

See, I am now for the third time prepared to visit you, but I will not be a dead weight to you. I desire not your money, but yourselves; for children ought not to put by for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, do not fret and harass your children, or you may make them sullen and morose.

And what father is there among you, who, if his son asks for a slice of bread, will offer him a stone? or if he asks for a fish, will instead of a fish offer him a snake?

and one God and Father of all, who rules over all, acts through all, and dwells in all.

See what marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon us--that we should be called God's children: and that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us--because it has not known Him.

By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.

You however are to be complete in goodness, as your Heavenly Father is complete.

"Dismiss your fears, little flock: your Father finds a pleasure in giving you the Kingdom.

Every gift which is good, and every perfect boon, is from above, and comes down from the Father, who is the source of all Light. In Him there is no variation nor the slightest suggestion of change.

What man is there among you, who if his son shall ask him for bread will offer him a stone?

"But beware of doing your good actions in the sight of men, in order to attract their gaze; if you do, there is no reward for you with your Father who is in Heaven.

I and the Father are one."

Just so let your light shine before all men, in order that they may see your holy lives and may give glory to your Father who is in Heaven.

Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.

And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice.

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

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.

Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.

And call no one on earth your Father, for One alone is your Father--the Heavenly Father.

"Why do you call me good?" asked Jesus in reply; "there is no one truly good except One--that is, God.

"Honour your father and your mother" --this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it--

Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?

"Why do you call me good?" replied Jesus; "there is no one good but One, namely God.

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

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

for it is not you who will speak: it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

"'Father,' cried the son, 'I have sinned against Heaven and before you: no longer do I deserve to be called a son of yours.'

that so you may become true sons of your Father in Heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the wicked as well as the good, and sends rain upon those who do right and those who do wrong.

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

Any one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and any one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

Brother will betray brother to death, and father, child; and children will rise against their own parents and will put them to death.

Now I say that so long as an heir is a child, he in no respect differs from a slave, although he is the owner of everything,