48 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

If ye then which are evil, can give good gifts unto your children: How much more shall the father of heaven give a holy spirit to them, that desire it of him?"

If ye then, which are evil, can give to your children good gifts, how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask of him?

for a righteous father is marvelous glad of a wise son, and delighteth in him.

and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be unto me sons and daughters," saith the Lord almighty.

Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children.

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be of a desperate mind.

If the son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father: will he give him a stone? Or if he ask fish, will he for a fish, give him a serpent?

one God and father of all, which is above all, through all, and in you all.

Behold what love the father hath showed on us, that we should be called the sons of God. For this cause the world knoweth you not; because it knoweth not him.

And hereby are the sons of God known, and also the sons of the devil. All that work not righteousness, are not of God, nor he that loveth not his brother.

Ye shall therefore be perfect even as your father which is in heaven is perfect.

Fear not little flock, for it is your father's pleasure, to give you a kingdom.

Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above and cometh down from the father of light, with whom is no variableness, neither is he changed unto darkness.

Is there any man among you which, if his son asked him bread, would offer him a stone?

Take heed to your alms, that ye give it not in the sight of men, to the intent that ye would be seen of them: or else ye get no reward of your father which is in heaven.

If a man beget a hundredth children, and live many years, so that his days are many in number, and yet cannot enjoy his good, neither be buried: as for him I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet body shameth his mother.

And I and my father are one."

Children's children are a crown of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.

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

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

And ye fathers, move not your children to wrath: but bring them up with the nurture and information of the Lord.

For as the father hath life in himself, so likewise hath he given to the son to have life in himself.

He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.

See that ye love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him.

Children, obey your fathers and mothers, in all things, for that is well pleasing unto the Lord.

The fathers shall not die for the children nor the children for the fathers: but every man shall die for his own sin.

And call ye no man your father upon the earth, for there is but one, your father, and he is in heaven.

Jesus said to him, "Why callest thou me good? There is no man good but one, which is God.

"Honour thy father and mother," that is the first commandment that hath any promise,

Moreover, seeing we had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spiritual gifts that we might live?

Jesus said unto him, "Why callest thou me good? None is good, save God only.

"If a man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, moreover and his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Be not ye like your forefathers, unto whom the Prophets cried afore time, saying, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God of hosts: Turn you from your evil ways, and from your wicked imaginations.' But they would not hear, nor regard me, sayeth the LORD.

"that thou mayst be in good estate, and live long on the earth."

"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

For it is not ye that speak, but the spirit of your father which speaketh in you.

And the son said unto him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy henceforth to be called thy son.'

that ye may be the children of your father that is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to arise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth his rain on the just and unjust.

An indiscreet son is a grief unto his father; and a heaviness unto his mother that bare him.

And be ye not like your fathers and your brethren which trespassed against the LORD of your fathers, which therefore gave them up that they are wasted, as ye see.

I will arise, and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee,

He that loveth his father or mother more than me, is not meet for me: and he that loveth his son or daughter more than me, is not meet for me.

The brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son: and the children shall arise against their fathers, and mothers, and shall put them to death,

For whom the LORD loveth, him he chasteneth: and yet delighteth in him even as a father in his own son.

And I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth not from a servant; though he be lord of all,