33 Bible Verses about Fathers Responsibilities

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

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

These are the singers, heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, [who lived] in the rooms [and were] free [from other service]; for they were employed in their work day and night.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains 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, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don't be diminished.

Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

They will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.

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

Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am but a little child. I don't know how to go out or come in.

he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

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

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Yet you say, Why doesn't the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

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

"'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 upon them.

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

"You shall not take advantage of 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.

Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' 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 say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

"'For everyone 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 upon him.

He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

What do you mean, that you use this proverb 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; the glory of children are their parents.

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

Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.