33 Bible Verses about Fathers Responsibilities

And this is the will of him that sent me: That every man which seeth the son, and believeth on him, have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day."

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be of a desperate mind.

If any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to rule their own houses godly, and to recompense their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God.

And he said unto them, "It is not for you to know the times, or the seasons which the father hath put in his own power:

Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children.

And it fortuned, the eighth day they came to circumcise the child: and called his name Zacharias after the name of his father,

For God commanded, saying, 'Honour thy father and mother,' and, 'He that curseth father or mother, shall suffer death.'

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

These are the singers - ancient heads among the Levites divided by chambers, for they had to do both day and night.

I write unto you fathers, how that ye have known him that was from the beginning. I write unto you young men, how that ye be strong; and the word of God dwelleth in you, that ye have overcome the wicked.

take you wives, to bear you sons and daughters; provide wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, that they may get sons and daughters, and that ye may multiply there. Labour not to be few,

Now if this man get a son also, that seeth all his father's sins, which he hath done, and feareth, neither doth such like:

They shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, of the children and children's children, all apparel small and great, all instruments of measure and music.

For ye are all the sons of God, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

And now LORD, my God, it is thou that hast made thy servant king instead of David my father. And I am a young lad and know not how to order myself.

And so shall he not honour his father or his mother. And thus have ye made, that the commandment of God is without effect, through your traditions.

For whosoever doth my father's will which is in heaven, the same is my brother, my sister, and my mother."

And whosoever forsaketh houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake; the same shall receive a hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

And yet say ye, 'Wherefore then should not this son bear his father's sin?' Therefore, because the son hath done equity and right, hath kept all my commandments and done them: therefore shall he live indeed.

For I came down from heaven: not to do mine own will, but his will which hath sent me.

If a man lie with his father's wife and uncover his father's privities, they shall both die for it, their blood be upon their heads.

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

Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:

I would ye knew that Christ is the head of every man; and the man is the woman's head; and God is Christ's head.

And the LORD said unto Aaron, "Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee, shall bear the fault of that which is done amiss in the holy place. And thou and thy sons with thee, shall bear the fault of that which is done amiss in your priesthood.

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

Then shall it no more be said, 'The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

"'Whosoever curseth his father or mother, shall die for it, his blood on his head, because he hath cursed his father or mother.

and he nourished Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and she was a fair and beautiful damsel. And when her father and mother died, Mordecai received her as his own daughter.

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

Children's children are a crown of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.

Another that was one of his Disciples said unto him, "Master, suffer me first, to go and bury my father."

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, see thou forsake not; but go not into thy brother's house in time of thy trouble. Better is a friend at hand than a brother far off.