68 Bible Verses about Fathers, Responsibilities Of

Like as a father pities his sons, So LORD pities those who fear him.

and in the wilderness, where thou have seen how that LORD thy God bore thee, as a man bears his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came to this place.

And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day, and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were completed, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my so

Or what man is there of you, who, if his son may ask for bread, will give him a stone, and if he may ask for a fish, will give him a serpent? If ye therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father in the heavens will give good things to those who ask him?

And which father of you, if the son will ask a loaf, will give him a stone, or also if a fish, in place of a fish will give him a serpent? Or if he should ask for an egg, will he give him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more the Father from heaven will give Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.

He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him promptly.

And thou shall consider in thy heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so LORD thy God chastens thee.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken to them, then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place. And they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice. He is a glutton, and a drunkard.read more.
And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

My son, despise not the chastening of LORD, nor be weary of his reproof. For whom LORD loves he reproves, {and he whips every son whom he receives (LXX/NT)}.

A fool despises his father's correction, but he who regards reproof gets prudence.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach, no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but meek, noncontentious, no lover of money, a man who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all proprietyread more.
(but if any man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of a congregation of God?),

Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? And if ye are without chastening, of which all have become participants, then ye are bastards, and not sons. Besides, we indeed have had chastisers--the fathers of our flesh--and we were turned around. Shall we not much more be subordinate to the Father of the spirits, and we will live?read more.
For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness. But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

I will open my mouth in parable{s (LXX/NT)}. I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their sons, telling to the generation to come the praises of LORD, and his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.read more.
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their sons, that the generation to come might know, even the sons who should be born, who should arise and tell to their sons, that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments, and might not be as their fathers: a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but make them known to thy sons and thy son's sons--

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart. And thou shall teach them diligently to thy sons, and shall talk of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lay down, and when thou rise up.

Therefore ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. And ye shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lay down, and when thou rise up. And thou shall write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates,read more.
that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your sons, in the land which LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

and that their sons who have not known may hear, and learn to fear LORD your God as long as ye live in the land where ye go over the Jordan to possess it.

A wise son [hears] his father's instruction, but a scoffer listens not to rebuke.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of Lord.

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

Honor thy father and thy mother, as LORD thy God commanded thee, that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

Every man shall fear his mother, and his father. And ye shall keep my Sabbaths. I am LORD your God.

For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.

For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.

And he who curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

And he said to him, Why do thou call me good? There is none good except one, God. But if thou want to enter into life, keep the commandments. He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not testify falsely. Honor the father and mother, and, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

And Jesus said to him, Why do thou call me good? None is good except one, God. Thou know the commandments. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not testify falsely. Thou shall not defraud. Thou shall honor thy father and mother.

And Jesus said to him, Why do thou call me good? None is good except one, God. Thou know the commandments. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not give FALSE testimony. Honor thy father and thy mother.

Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth.

Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in Lord.

My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and do not forsake the law of thy mother.

Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me. For blessed are those who keep my ways.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was being subordinate to them. And his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

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

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Lo, sons are a heritage of LORD, [and] the fruit of the womb is [a] reward. As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They shall not be put to shame when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of thy house, thy sons like olive plants round about thy table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears LORD.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

He who loves wisdom delights his father, but he who keeps company with harlots wastes [his] substance.

He who begets a fool [it is] to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

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

A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her. And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. And he went in to her.

I did not bring to thee that which was torn by beasts; I bore the loss of it, of my hand thou required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. These twenty years I have been in thy house. I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock. And thou have changed my wages ten times.read more.
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now thou would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee last night.

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou do to the people? Why do thou sit by thyself, and all the people stand about thee from morning to evening? And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God. When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor. And I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.read more.
And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou do is not good. Thou will surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee, for the thing is too heavy for thee. Thou are not able to perform it thyself alone. Hearken now to my voice. I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee. Be thou for the people toward God, and bring thou the cases to God. And thou shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do. Moreover thou shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain, and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and let them judge the people at all seasons. And it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring to thee, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear [the burden If thou shall do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shall be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace. So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and they judged the people at all seasons. The hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. And Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.

And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father's house, and when the father of the damsel saw him, he And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained him, and he abode with him three days. So they ate and drank, and lodged there. And it came to pass on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. And the damsel's father said to his son-in-law, Strengthen thy heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward ye shall go your way.read more.
So they sat down, and ate and drank, both of them together. And the damsel's father said to the man, Be pleased, I pray thee, to tarry all night, and let thy heart be merry. And the man rose up to depart, but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again. And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart. And the damsel's father said, Strengthen thy heart, I pray thee, and tarry ye until the day declines. And they ate, both of them. And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said to him, Behold, now the day draws toward evening, I pray you tarry all night. Behold, the day grows to an end,

And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth, fo And about the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, Fear not, for thou have brought forth a son. But she did not answer, neither did she regard it. And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

and led him away first to Annas. For he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

Honor the father and mother, and, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

Thou know the commandments. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not testify falsely. Thou shall not defraud. Thou shall honor thy father and mother.

Thou know the commandments. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not give FALSE testimony. Honor thy father and thy mother.

Children, obey your parents in Lord, for this is right. Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth.

And he who smites his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death. But ye say, Whoever may say to the father or the mother, Whatever thou might have benefited from me is an offering. And he will, no, not honor his father or mother. And ye have annulled the command of God because of your tradition.

For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death. But ye say, If a man should say to his father or mother, Whatever ye might be benefited from me is Corban, that is, an offering, then ye no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,read more.
annulling the word of God by your tradition that ye have delivered. And many such like things ye do.

A father will be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

For I came to divide a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes, are those of his own household.

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.