48 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

If you then, being 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, being 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 has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

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

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Don't be afraid, 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 can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

"Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you 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 filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

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

I and the Father are one."

Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Even so, let your light 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.

You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases 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.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

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

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

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one -- God.

"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.

Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.

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

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Don't be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

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

"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;