33 Bible Verses about Fathers Responsibilities

And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one who seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

But if any widow hath children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

And he said to them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

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.

And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

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

And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.

I have written to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Now lo, if he begetteth a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

For ye are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.

And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

For whoever shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive a hundred-fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death: their blood shall be upon them.

Jesus saith to them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

And the LORD said to Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

If her father shall utterly refuse to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dower of virgins.

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

For every one that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children is their fathers.

And another of his disciples said to him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

Thy own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near, than a brother far off.