Bible Verses About Being a Good Father
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being a good father, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,974 votes, led by Ephesians 6:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being a Good Father
Ephesians 6:4522 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Proverbs 22:6452 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Psalms 103:13368 votes
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
Colossians 3:21294 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Proverbs 23:24276 votes
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Psalms 127:3-5258 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
1 John 3:1240 votes
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Luke 11:11-12170 votes
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
Joshua 24:15166 votes
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Titus 2:1-15149 votes
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
Proverbs 3:11-12123 votes
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:
John 3:16122 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Luke 15:11-32118 votes
And he said, A certain man had two sons:
Psalms 23:1-6117 votes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Proverbs 23:22113 votes
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9105 votes
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:
Matthew 6:33103 votes
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Proverbs 14:2699 votes
In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
Proverbs 20:799 votes
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
Proverbs 3:1-1298 votes
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Joshua 1:993 votes
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Hebrews 12:793 votes
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Malachi 4:690 votes
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Exodus 20:1288 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
1 Thessalonians 2:11-1285 votes
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
What does the Bible say about being a good father?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 6:4 on the subject of being a good father. Across 8,974 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 22:6, Psalms 103:13, Colossians 3:21. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.