33 Bible Verses about Fathers Responsibilities

This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.

Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.

This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name;

For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

And these were those who had the ordering of the music and songs, heads of families of the Levites, who were living in the rooms, and were free from other work, for their work went on day and night.

I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One.

Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

Now if he has a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and in fear does not do the same:

And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.

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

And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.

There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

But you say, Why does not the son undergo punishment for the evil-doing of the father? When the son has done what is ordered and right, and has kept my rules and done them, life will certainly be his.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.

And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.

Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

But it is important for you to keep this fact in mind, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

And the Lord said to Aaron, You and your sons and your father's family are to be responsible for all wrongdoing in relation to the holy place: and you and your sons are to be responsible for the errors which come about in your work as priests.

If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins.

In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge.

Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.

And he had been a father to Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother, and she was very beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter.

Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

And another of the disciples said to him, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.

Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.