35 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

And I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, do not provoke your children, or they will become discouraged.

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent?

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God! And so we are! The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

"Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

I and the Father are one."

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

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

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself,

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

And do not call anyone on earth your 'Father,' for you have one Father, he who is in heaven.

And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.

"Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),

Besides this, we have had fathers of our flesh to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.

"If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

"that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth."

for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I will arise and go to my father and will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of all the estate;