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Then say to Pharaoh, 'This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son,
Exodus Chapter 4: Verse 22
You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,
Deuteronomy Chapter 14: Verse 1
They have acted corruptly toward him; to their shame they are no longer his children, but a warped and crooked generation.
Is this the way you repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?
Deuteronomy Chapter 32: Verses 5 - 6
I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with the rod of men, with floggings inflicted by men.
2 Samuel Chapter 7: Verse 14
He said to me: 'Solomon your son is the one who will build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
1 Chronicles Chapter 28: Verse 6
David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, "Praise be to you, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
1 Chronicles Chapter 29: Verse 10
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
Psalms Chapter 68: Verse 5
He will call out to me, 'You are my Father, my God, the Rock my Savior.'
Psalms Chapter 89: Verse 26
Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth! For the LORD has spoken: "I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
Isaiah Chapter 1: Verse 2
Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.
Isaiah Chapter 8: Verse 18
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah Chapter 9: Verse 6
But you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us or Israel acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
Isaiah Chapter 63: Verse 16
Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Isaiah Chapter 64: Verse 8
"I myself said, " 'How gladly would I treat you like sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.' I thought you would call me 'Father' and not turn away from following me.
Jeremiah Chapter 3: Verse 19
"Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'
Hosea Chapter 1: Verse 10
"When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
Hosea Chapter 11: Verse 1
And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased."
Matthew Chapter 3: Verse 17
that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Matthew Chapter 5: Verse 45
so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.Prayer
Matthew Chapter 6: Verse 4
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
"This, then, is how you should pray: " 'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
Matthew Chapter 6: Verses 8 - 9
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
Matthew Chapter 7: Verse 11
for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Matthew Chapter 10: Verse 20
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny ? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.
Matthew Chapter 10: Verse 29
"Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.
But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.
Matthew Chapter 10: Verses 32 - 33
At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.
"All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Matthew Chapter 11: Verses 25 - 27
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."
Matthew Chapter 12: Verse 50
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl
Matthew Chapter 13: Verse 43
He replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
Matthew Chapter 15: Verse 13
Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven.
Matthew Chapter 16: Verse 17
For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.
Matthew Chapter 16: Verse 27
"See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
Matthew Chapter 18: Verse 10
In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.A Brother Who Sins Against You
Matthew Chapter 18: Verse 14
"Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.
Matthew Chapter 18: Verse 19
Jesus said to them, "You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father."
Matthew Chapter 20: Verse 23
I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom."
Matthew Chapter 26: Verse 29
Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will."
Matthew Chapter 26: Verse 39
If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels."
Mark Chapter 8: Verse 38
And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins." The Authority of Jesus Questioned
Mark Chapter 11: Verse 25
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Mark Chapter 13: Verse 32
"Why were you searching for me?" he asked. "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?"
Luke Chapter 2: Verse 49
At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.
"All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Luke Chapter 10: Verses 21 - 22
If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"Jesus and Beelzebub
Luke Chapter 11: Verse 13
And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me,
Luke Chapter 22: Verse 29
Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last.
Luke Chapter 23: Verse 46
I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."The Ascension
Luke Chapter 24: Verse 49
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John Chapter 1: Verse 14
No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.John the Baptist Denies Being the Christ
John Chapter 1: Verse 18
To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!"
John Chapter 2: Verse 16
Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
John Chapter 4: Verse 21
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
John Chapter 4: Verse 23
Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working."
For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these.
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.
Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,
that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.
John Chapter 5: Verses 17 - 23
"I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me.
And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,
John Chapter 5: Verses 36 - 37
I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
John Chapter 5: Verse 43
Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval."
John Chapter 6: Verse 27
Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
John Chapter 6: Verse 32
"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
John Chapter 6: Verses 44 - 46
Then they asked him, "Where is your father?"
John Chapter 8: Verse 19
They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.
John Chapter 8: Verse 27
I am telling you what I have seen in the Father's presence, and you do what you have heard from your father. "
John Chapter 8: Verse 38
You are doing the things your own father does." "We are not illegitimate children," they protested. "The only Father we have is God himself."The Children of the Devil
Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me.
John Chapter 8: Verses 41 - 42
"I am not possessed by a demon," said Jesus, "but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.
John Chapter 8: Verse 49
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father,and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John Chapter 10: Verse 15
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all ; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.
I and the Father are one."
John Chapter 10: Verses 29 - 30
but Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?"
"We are not stoning you for any of these," replied the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God."
John Chapter 10: Verses 32 - 33
what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, 'I am God's Son'?
Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does.
But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
John Chapter 10: Verses 36 - 38
Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
"Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.
Father, glorify your name!"
John Chapter 12: Verses 26 - 28
I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say."
John Chapter 12: Verse 50
Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God;
John Chapter 13: Verse 3
In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
John Chapter 14: Verse 2
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.
I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.
John Chapter 14: Verses 6 - 13
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever,
John Chapter 14: Verse 16
On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."
John Chapter 14: Verses 20 - 21
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
John Chapter 14: Verses 23 - 24
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
John Chapter 14: Verse 26
but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. "Come now; let us leave.
John Chapter 14: Verse 31
This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.
John Chapter 15: Verses 8 - 10
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit,fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
John Chapter 15: Verse 16
He who hates me hates my Father as well.
If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.
John Chapter 15: Verses 23 - 24
"When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.
John Chapter 15: Verse 26
They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.
John Chapter 16: Verse 3
in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer;
John Chapter 16: Verse 10
All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.
John Chapter 16: Verse 15
In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
John Chapter 16: Verse 23
"Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.
In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."
John Chapter 16: Verses 25 - 28
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.
John Chapter 17: Verse 1
And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.Jesus Prays for His Disciples
John Chapter 17: Verse 5
I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name,the name you gave me,so that they may be one as we are one.
John Chapter 17: Verse 11
that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
John Chapter 17: Verse 21
"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
John Chapter 17: Verse 24
Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' "
John Chapter 20: Verse 17
Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you."
John Chapter 20: Verse 21
On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.
Acts Chapter 1: Verse 4
Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
Acts Chapter 2: Verse 33
regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendant of David,
and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans Chapter 1: Verses 3 - 4
To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.Paul's Longing to Visit Rome
Romans Chapter 1: Verse 7
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father."
Romans Chapter 8: Verse 15
yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
1 Corinthians Chapter 8: Verse 6
Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.
1 Corinthians Chapter 15: Verse 24
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
2 Corinthians Chapter 1: Verse 3
"I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."
2 Corinthians Chapter 6: Verse 18
Paul, an apostle,sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead,
Galatians Chapter 1: Verse 1
who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Galatians Chapter 1: Verse 4
But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law,
to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.
Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father."
So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.Paul's Concern for the Galatians
Galatians Chapter 4: Verses 4 - 7
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
Ephesians Chapter 1: Verse 3
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
Ephesians Chapter 1: Verse 17
For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Ephesians Chapter 2: Verse 18
For this reason I kneel before the Father,
Ephesians Chapter 3: Verse 14
one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Ephesians Chapter 4: Verse 6
always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians Chapter 5: Verse 20
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
Colossians Chapter 1: Verse 3
giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.
Colossians Chapter 1: Verse 12
My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ,
Colossians Chapter 2: Verse 2
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.Rules for Christian Households
Colossians Chapter 3: Verse 17
Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you. Thanksgiving for the Thessalonians' Faith
1 Thessalonians Chapter 1: Verse 1
We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 1: Verse 3
Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 3: Verse 11
May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 3: Verse 13
Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Thanksgiving and Prayer
2 Thessalonians Chapter 1: Verses 1 - 2
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,
2 Thessalonians Chapter 2: Verse 16
For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son; today I have become your Father " ? Or again, "I will be his Father, and he will be my Son" ?
And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him."
Hebrews Chapter 1: Verses 5 - 6
Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live!
Hebrews Chapter 12: Verse 9
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
James Chapter 1: Verse 17
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James Chapter 1: Verse 27
With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness.
James Chapter 3: Verse 9
who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.Praise to God for a Living Hope
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter Chapter 1: Verses 2 - 3
Since you call on a Father who judges each man's work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear.
1 Peter Chapter 1: Verse 17
The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.
1 John Chapter 1: Verse 2
My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense,Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
1 John Chapter 2: Verse 1
I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, because you have known the Father.
1 John Chapter 2: Verse 13
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John Chapter 2: Verse 15
Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist,he denies the Father and the Son.
No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
1 John Chapter 2: Verses 22 - 24
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John Chapter 3: Verse 1
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
1 John Chapter 4: Verse 14
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father's Son, will be with us in truth and love.
It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us.
2 John Chapter 1: Verses 3 - 4
Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
2 John Chapter 1: Verse 9
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ:
Jude Chapter 1: Verse 1
and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father,to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.
Revelation Chapter 1: Verses 5 - 6
He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.
Revelation Chapter 3: Verse 5
Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
Revelation Chapter 14: Verse 1
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