48 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father
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If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy in him.
And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he asks for a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.
Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Take heed that you give not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father who is in heaven.
If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn birth is better than he.
A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish man despises his mother.
Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children is their fathers.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself;
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Honor your father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Be you not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Turn you now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, says the LORD.
Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.
My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight, and am no more worthy to be called your son.
That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he makes his sun to 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 that bore him.
And be not like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you,
He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
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