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100 Bible Verses about Being A Good Father

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 519 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 451 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 367 helpful votes

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 294 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 23:24 ESV / 275 helpful votes

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 253 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 240 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Luke 11:11-12 ESV / 171 helpful votes

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 164 helpful votes

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 147 helpful votes

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 122 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 122 helpful votes

My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 118 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Luke 15:11-32 ESV / 117 helpful votes

And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. ...

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 114 helpful votes

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 ESV / 105 helpful votes

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ...

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 103 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Proverbs 14:26 ESV / 99 helpful votes

In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.

Proverbs 20:7 ESV / 98 helpful votes

The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!

Proverbs 3:1-12 ESV / 98 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 93 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Hebrews 12:7 ESV / 91 helpful votes

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 89 helpful votes

And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 87 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 ESV / 85 helpful votes

For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

Matthew 7:9-11 ESV / 77 helpful votes

Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are 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!

Luke 15:20 ESV / 76 helpful votes

And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

Proverbs 3:12 ESV / 75 helpful votes

For the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Matthew 7:11 ESV / 73 helpful votes

If you then, who are 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!

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ESV / 73 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

2 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 72 helpful votes

And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 62 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 1:29-31 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Then I said to you, ‘Do not be in dread or afraid of them. The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

Romans 8:15 ESV / 60 helpful votes

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 58 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Isaiah 64:8 ESV / 57 helpful votes

But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 55 helpful votes

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 55 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Matthew 23:9 ESV / 53 helpful votes

And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Matthew 6:26 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

3 John 1:4 ESV / 51 helpful votes

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Exodus 34:6-7 ESV / 51 helpful votes

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 49 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 48 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

James 1:17 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Proverbs 3:11 ESV / 46 helpful votes

My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof,

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Proverbs 17:27 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Psalm 68:5 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

John 14:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes

In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.

John 14:6 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Luke 11:13 ESV / 43 helpful votes

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 42 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

John 15:8 ESV / 41 helpful votes

By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 40 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Leviticus 19:3 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Genesis 18:19 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 39 helpful votes

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

Isaiah 40:30-31 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Ephesians 4:6 ESV / 37 helpful votes

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

1 Chronicles 29:17 ESV / 37 helpful votes

I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 36 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 34 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Luke 12:32 ESV / 34 helpful votes

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

Luke 11:11-16 ESV / 34 helpful votes

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke, and the people marveled. But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons,” ...

Matthew 3:7-17 ESV / 34 helpful votes

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. ...

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Proverbs 3:32 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 32 helpful votes

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

Psalm 103:12 ESV / 32 helpful votes

As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 10:29-31 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ...

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

John 16:21 ESV / 29 helpful votes

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 29 helpful votes

You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:25-33 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, ...

1 John 2:15 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 27 helpful votes

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Romans 8:32 ESV / 26 helpful votes

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Matthew 7:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

1 Thessalonians 2:11 ESV / 24 helpful votes

For you know how, like a father with his children,

Mark 14:36 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

John 14:16 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

Proverbs 3:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 22 helpful votes

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

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