47 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 the 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!

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

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

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

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they 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 kind of love the Father has given to 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 is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

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

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

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

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

"Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

I and the Father are one."

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is 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.

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

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.

"Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

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

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

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

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

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

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.' But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.

"that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land."

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

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.'

so that you may be sons of your Father who is 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.

A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the LORD God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.

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

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

for the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,