33 Bible Verses about Fathers Responsibilities

And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes on Him should have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they be discouraged.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

And He said to them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own authority.

Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and were calling it Zacharias, after his father's name.

For God commanded, saying, "Honor your father and mother"; and, "He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him die by death."

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

And these were the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites in the chambers, they were free of duty, for they were employed in that work day and night.

I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is 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 father sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters, that you may be multiplied there and not become few.

And, lo, if he fathers a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and fears, and does not do like him;

And they shall hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the offshoots, all small vessels, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of jars.

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

And now, O Jehovah my God, You have made Your servant king instead of David my father. And I am a little child; I do not know to go out or come in!

and in no way he honors his father or his mother. And you voided the commandment of God by your tradition.

For whoever shall do the will of My Father in Heaven, the same is My brother and sister and mother.

And everyone who left 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 everlasting life.

Yet you say, Why? Does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done justice and right, has kept all My statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

For I came down from Heaven, not to do My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.

And the man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be on them.

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

You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

But I would have you know 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 Jehovah said to Aaron, You and your sons, and your father's house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary. And you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

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

In those days they shall not say any more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are dull.

And any man who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be on him.

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter. For she had neither father nor mother, and the young woman was fair and beautiful, whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

What is it to you that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the teeth of the sons are dull?

Sons of sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

And another of His disciples said to him, Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.

Your own friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake them; nor go to your brother's house in the day of your trouble; better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.