33 Bible Verses about Fathers Responsibilities

And this is the will of him that sent me, That every one who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Fathers, provoke not your children lest they become disheartened.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let those learn first to govern their house in piety and to recompense their parents, for this is honest and pleasing before God.

And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put under his authority only.

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

And it came to pass that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they called him Zacharias after the name of his father.

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother, and, He that curses father or mother, let him die without recourse.

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

And of these there were singers, princes of the fathers of the Levites, who remained in the chambers free from other work; for they were employed in that work day and night.

I have written unto you, fathers, that ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, that ye are strong and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

take wives and beget sons and daughters; give wives unto your sons and give husbands unto your daughters, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be multiplied there and not diminished.

But if he begets a son that sees all his father's sins which he has done and seeing them, does not do according to them,

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the sons and the grandsons, all the vessels of small quantity, from the cups to drink from even unto all the instruments of music.

For ye are all sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy slave king instead of David my father; and I am but a tender young man; I do not know how to go out or come in.

and now has no need to honour his father or his mother with succour. Thus ye have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, the same is my brother and sister and mother.

And every one that has forsaken houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit eternal life.

Yet if ye say, Why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? Because the son has lived according to judgment and righteousness and has kept all my statutes and has done them, he shall surely live.

For I came down from the heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

And the man that lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely die; their blood shall be upon them.

Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.

Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

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

And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

If her father utterly refuses to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

In those days they shall no longer say, The fathers have eaten the sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

For any man that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

And he had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; and as her father and mother were dead, Mordecai had taken her for his own daughter.

What mean ye, that ye use this saying concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge?

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

And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

Do not forsake thine own friend and thy father's friend, neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity, for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.