33 Bible Verses about Fathers Responsibilities

For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in regard to their own family and to make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;

Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to call him Zacharias, after his father.

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother is to be put to death.’

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

Now these are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the chambers of the temple free from other service; for they were engaged in their work day and night.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease.

“Now behold, he has a son who has observed all his father’s sins which he committed, and observing does not do likewise.

So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, offspring and issue, all the least of vessels, from bowls to all the jars.

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king in place of my father David, yet I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.

he is not to honor his father or his mother.’ And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.”

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

“Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity?’ When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has observed all My statutes and done them, he shall surely live.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

If there is a man who lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.

Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.

You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

So the Lord said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s household with you shall bear the guilt in connection with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the guilt in connection with your priesthood.

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.

“In those days they will not say again,
‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

‘If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his bloodguiltiness is upon him.

He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had no father or mother. Now the young lady was beautiful of form and face, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

“What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,
‘The fathers eat the sour grapes,
But the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

Grandchildren are the crown of old men,
And the glory of sons is their fathers.

Another of the disciples said to Him, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”

Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
And do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.