33 Bible Verses about Fathers Responsibilities

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

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so they won’t become discouraged.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or periods that the Father has set by His own authority.

Now I am ready to come to you this third time. I will not burden you, for I am not seeking what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

When they came to circumcise the child on the eighth day, they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.

For God said:

Honor your father and your mother; and,
The one who speaks evil of father or mother
must be put to death.

Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.

The singers, the heads of the Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other tasks because they were on duty day and night.

I have written to you, children,
because you have come to know the Father.
I have written to you, fathers,
because you have come to know
the One who is from the beginning.
I have written to you, young men,
because you are strong,
God’s word remains in you,
and you have had victory over the evil one.

Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters to men in marriage so that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

“Now suppose he has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, and though he sees them, he does not do likewise.

They will hang on him the whole burden of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the small vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.

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

“Lord my God, You have now made Your servant king in my father David’s place. Yet I am just a youth with no experience in leadership.

he does not have to honor his father.’ In this way, you have revoked God’s word because of your tradition.

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

And everyone who has left houses, brothers or sisters, father or mother, children, or fields because of My name will receive 100 times more and will inherit eternal life.

But you may ask, ‘Why doesn’t the son suffer punishment for the father’s iniquity?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will certainly live.

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

If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has shamed his father. Both of them must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands.

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

“You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

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

The Lord said to Aaron, “You, your sons, and your ancestral house will be responsible for sin against the sanctuary. You and your sons will be responsible for sin involving your priesthood.

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must pay an amount in silver equal to the bridal price for virgins.

“In those days, it will never again be said:

The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.

“If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on his own hands.

Mordecai was the legal guardian of his cousin Hadassah (that is, Esther), because she didn’t have a father or mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was extremely good-looking. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter.

“What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel:

The fathers eat sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge?

Grandchildren are the crown of the elderly,
and the pride of sons is their fathers.

“Lord,” another of His disciples said, “first let me go bury my father.”

Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.