33 Bible Verses about Fathers Responsibilities

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father,

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Now these, the singers, the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, were in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.

"Now suppose this man fathers a son who sees all the sins that his father has done; he sees, and does not do likewise:

And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father's house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.

for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go out or come in.

he need not honor his father.' So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

"Yet you say, 'Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?' When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood.

If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.

In those days they shall no longer say: "'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

"What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father."

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.