34 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask him for it!"

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!

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

Here it is the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I do not intend to be a burden to you now; for it is not your money but yourselves that I want; for children are not expected to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.

Fathers, do not irritate your children, or they may lose heart.

Which of you fathers, if his son asks him for a fish will give him a snake instead?

one God and Father of all, who is above us all, pervades us all, and is within us all.

Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are??ecause it has never come to know him.

This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.

So you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is.

Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen to give you the kingdom.

Every good gift and every perfect present is from heaven, and comes down from the Father of the heavenly lights, about whom there is no variation of changing shadow.

Which of you men when his son asks him for some bread will give him a stone?

"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

The Father and I are one."

Your light must burn in that way among men so that they will see the good you do, and praise your Father in heaven.

Children, as Christians obey your parents, for that is right.

You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.

For just as the Father is self-existent, he has given self-existence to the Son,

Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

Children, always obey your parents, for that is commendable in Christians.

And you must not call anyone on earth your father, for you have only one father, your heavenly Father.

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

"You must honor your father and mother"??hat is the first commandment accompanied with a promise??3 "so that you may prosper and have a long life on earth."

When our earthly fathers disciplined us we treated them with respect; should we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so have life?

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

"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

for it is not you who will speak, it is the Spirit of your Father that will speak through you.

His son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your eyes; I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired men!'

so that you may show yourselves true sons of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on bad and good alike, and makes the rain fall on the upright and the wrongdoers.

I will get up, and go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your eyes;

No one who loves father or mother more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who loves son or daughter more than he loves me is worthy of me,

One brother will give up another to death, and a father his child, and children will turn against their parents, and have them put to death.

I mean this: As long as the heir is a minor, he is no better than a slave, although he is the owner of all the property,