35 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

If ye, 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, therefore, ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in Heaven give good things to those asking Him?

and I will be to you a Father, and ye shall be My sons and daughters." saith the Lord Almighty.

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

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be disheartened.

And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask bread, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he, instead of a fish, give him 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 hath given to us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knows us not, because it knew Him not.

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the Devil: every one that does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that does not love his brother;

Ye, therefore, shall be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect."

"Fear not, little flock; because your Father delighted to give you the Kingdom.

Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with Whom there is no variableness or shadow cast by turning.

Or what man is there of you who, if his son shall ask him for bread, will give him a stone?

"Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen by them, otherwise at least ye have no reward with your Father Who is in Heaven.

I and the Father are One."

So let your light shine before men, 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.

And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

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

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone 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 one your father on the earth; for One is your Father, the Heavenly.

And Jesus said to Him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good, but One??od.

"Honor your father and mother" (which, indeed, is the first commandment with a promise),

Furthermore, we used to have the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?

And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good, but One??od.

"If any one comes to Me, and hates not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and, further, his own soul also, he cannot be My disciple.

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

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

And the son said to the father, 'Father, I sinned against Heaven, and before you; no longer am I worthy to be called your son!'

that ye may be sons of your Father Who is in Heaven; because He causeth His sun to rise on evil men and on good, and sendeth rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

Arising, I will go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I sinned against 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 brother will deliver up brother to death; and father, his child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

But I say that, so long as the heir is a child, he differs in nothing from a slave, though he is lord of all;