33 Bible Verses about Fathers Responsibilities

For this is the will of my Father -- for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become disheartened.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God.

He told them, "You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'

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

The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.

I have written to you, children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one.

Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.

"But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father's example.

His father's family will gain increasing prominence because of him, including the offspring and the offshoots. All the small containers, including the bowls and all the jars will hang from this peg.'

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

Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David's place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced.

he does not need to honor his father.' You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

"Yet you say, 'Why should the son not suffer for his father's iniquity?' When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

If a man has sexual intercourse with his father's wife, he has exposed his father's nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

"You must not afflict any widow or orphan.

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

The Lord said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your tribe with you must bear the iniquity of the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you must bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

"When that time comes, people will no longer say, 'The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children's teeth have grown numb.'

"'If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

Now he was acting as the guardian of Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, for neither her father nor her mother was alive. This young woman was very attractive and had a beautiful figure. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had raised her as if she were his own daughter.

"What do you mean by quoting this proverb concerning the land of Israel, "'The fathers eat sour grapes And the children's teeth become numb?'

Grandchildren are like a crown to the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

Another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father."

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not enter your brother's house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.