35 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

If ye then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that ask Him?

If ye then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to them that ask Him?

and I will be a father unto you, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith 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 your substance, but your selves. For children are not expected to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

and ye fathers, do not irritate your children, least they be discouraged.

If a son ask bread of any father among you, will he give him a stone? and if he ask for a fish, will he instead of a fish give him a serpent? or if he ask for an egg,

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

Behold then what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God: though for this reason the world knoweth us not, because it knew not Him.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doth not practise righteousness, and he who loveth not his brother, is not of God:

Be ye therefore perfect in love and goodness, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

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

and every perfect gift, but no evil one, is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, nor shadow of turning:

Is there any man among you, who, if his son ask him for bread, will give him a stone?

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be observed by them: otherwise ye will have no reward from your Father, who is in heaven.

I and the Father are one. Then the Jews again took up stones to stone Him.

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.

And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children: but educate them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

For as the Father hath life in Himself, so hath He given also to the Son to have life in Himself.

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world; for if any one love the world to excess, the love of the Father is not in him.

Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord:

Neither call any man upon earth Father; for one is your Father, who is in heaven:

And Jesus said unto him, Why dost thou call me good? there is none good, but one, that is God.

Honour thy father and thy mother, (which is the first commandment with promise,)

Now if we had fathers of our flesh, who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is God.

so he turned and said to them, If any man come to me, and does not comparatively hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple.

that it may be well with thee, and thou shalt be long-lived upon the earth.

but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh by you.

And his son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no longer worthy to be called thy son.

that ye may be the children of your heavenly Father; for He causeth his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain upon the just and the unjust.

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

He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me:

Brother shall betray his brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death:

Now as long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he is to be lord of all: