35 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

If ye then, evil as ye are, know how to give good gifts to your children; how much more shall your Father, who is in heaven, give his Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

If ye then, evil as ye are, know how to bestow good gifts on your children; how much more will your Father who is in heaven, bestow good things on those who ask him?

and I will be as a father unto you, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

Lo! I hold myself ready the third time to come unto you, and I will not burden you; for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up treasure for their parents, but the parents for the children.

Parents, irritate not your children, lest their spirit be broken.

For what father of you, if his son ask a loaf, will he give him a stone? or if a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

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

BEHOLD, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God! therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

By this the children of God are manifestly seen, and the children of the devil. Every one that doth not practise righteousness, is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.

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

Fear not, little flock! for your Father takes delight in giving you the kingdom.

Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, descending from the father of illuminations, with whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of change.

What man is there of you, of whom if his son ask a loaf, will he give him a stone?

TAKE heed that ye do not your alms before men, in order to catch their eye: for otherwise ye have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

I and my Father are one.

Just so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

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

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

For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son also to have life in himself;

Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Children, be obedient to your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

And call no man your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.

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

"Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with a promise;)

If then we have had the fathers of our flesh for correctors, and reverenced them; shall we not much more be under subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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

If any man cometh after me, and hateth not father, and mother, and wife and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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

for it is not you who are speaking, but the Spirit of your Father which is speaking in you.

Then said the son unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

that ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he causeth his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and tendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

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 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.

Then brother shall surrender brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

NOW I affirm, that as long as the heir is an infant, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be master of all;