26 Bible Verses about Fathers, Responsibilities Of

Why, which of you, when asked by his son for a loaf, will hand him a stone? Or, if he asks a fish, will you hand him a serpent? Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him?

What father among you, if asked by his son for a loaf, will hand him a stone? Or, if asked for a fish, will hand him a serpent instead of a fish? Or, if asked for an egg, will he hand him a scorpion? Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father give the holy Spirit from heaven to those who ask him?"

Fathers, avoid irritating your children, in case they get dispirited.

Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher, not a drunkard or violent, but lenient and conciliatory, not a lover of money, able to manage his own household properly and keep his children submissive and perfectly respectfulread more.
(if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for where is the son who is not disciplined by his father? Discipline is the portion of all; if you get no discipline, then you are not sons but bastards. Why, we had fathers of our flesh to discipline us, and we yielded to them! Shall we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so live?read more.
For while their discipline was only for a time, and inflicted at their pleasure, he disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his own holiness. Discipline always seems for the time to be a thing of pain, not of joy; but those who are trained by it reap the fruit of it afterwards in the peace of an upright life.

As for you fathers, do not exasperate your children, but bring them up in the discipline and on the admonitions of the Lord.

God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.

Thus, Moses said, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.

He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One alone is good. But if you want to get into Life, keep the commands." "Which?" he said. Jesus answered, "The commands, you shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself."

Jesus said to him, "Why call me 'good'? No one is good, no one but God. You know the commands: do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honour your father and mother."

Jesus said to him, "Why call me 'good'? No one is good, no one but God. You know the commands: do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honour your father and mother."

honour your father and mother (it is the first command with a promise), that it may be well with you and that you may live long on earth.

Children, obey your parents at every point, for this pleases the Lord right well.

Then he went down along with them to Nazaret, and did as they told him. His mother treasured up everything in her heart.

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

and brought him first of all to Annas (for Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year ??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their interests that one man should die for the people).

honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself."

You know the commands: do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honour your father and mother."

You know the commands: do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honour your father and mother."

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right; honour your father and mother (it is the first command with a promise), that it may be well with you and that you may live long on earth.

God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,' need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition.

Thus, Moses said, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. But you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service, but it is Korban' (that is, dedicated to God), he is exempt, so you hold, from doing anything for his father or mother.read more.
That is repealing the word of God in the interests of the tradition which you keep up. And you do many things like that."

father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; yes, a man's own household will be his enemies.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me:

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;