17 Bible Verses about Fathers Responsibilities

For this is the will of my Father, that every one who looketh on the Son and believeth in him, shall have everlasting life; and I will raise him up in the last day.

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

But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety to their own family, and to requite their parents; for this is acceptable before God.

But he said to them, It belongeth not to you to know times or seasons, which the Father appointed by his own authority.

Behold, I am ready to come to you this third time, and I will not be a charge 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 were about to call him Zachariah, after the name of his father.

For God commanded, saying, "Honor thy father and thy mother;" and, "He that curseth father or mother, let him surely die."

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

I have written to you, fathers, because ye know him that was 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 Evil One.

For ye are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus;

he shall not honor his father or his mother. Thus have ye made void the law of God for the sake of your tradition.

For whoever doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

And every one who hath left brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, or houses, for the sake of my name, will receive many fold more, and will inherit everlasting life.

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

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

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