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Exodus 4:22 Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
Deuteronomy 14:1 You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
Deuteronomy 32:5, 6 His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation. / Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
2 Samuel 7:14 I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
1 Chronicles 28:6 And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.
1 Chronicles 29:10 Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
Psalm 89:26 He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
Isaiah 1:2 Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
Isaiah 8:18 Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 63:16 Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
Jeremiah 3:19 Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
Hosea 11:1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
Matthew 3:17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
Matthew 5:45 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 6:4, 6, 8, 9 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. / But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. / Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
Matthew 7:11 So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
Matthew 10:20, 29, 32, 33 For it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. / 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. / Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.
Matthew 11:25–27 At that time Jesus declared, “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 well-pleasing in Your sight. / All things have been entrusted 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 12:50 For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 13:43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
Matthew 15:13 But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.
Matthew 16:17, 27 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven. / For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
Matthew 18:10, 14, 19 See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven. / In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish. / Again, I tell you truly that if two of you on the earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven.
Matthew 20:23 “You will indeed drink My cup,” Jesus said. “But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These seats belong to those for whom My Father has prepared them.”
Matthew 26:29, 39, 42 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.” / Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.” / A second time He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done.”
Mark 8:38 If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
Mark 11:25, 26 And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against another, forgive it, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your trespasses as well.” / 0
Mark 13:32 No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Luke 2:49 “Why were you looking for Me?” He asked. “Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”
Luke 10:21, 22 At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and declared, “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 well-pleasing in Your sight. / All things have been entrusted 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 11:2, 13 So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. / So if you who 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!”
Luke 22:29 And I bestow on you a kingdom, just as My Father has bestowed one on Me,
Luke 23:46 Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.” And when He had said this, He breathed His last.
Luke 24:49 And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you. But remain in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
John 1:14, 18 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. / No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
John 2:16 To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
John 4:21, 23 “Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. / But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.
John 5:17–23, 36, 37, 43 But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.” / Because of this, 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. / So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
John 6:27, 32, 44–46 Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.” / Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. / “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 8:19, 27, 38, 41, 42, 49 “Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.” / They did not understand that He was telling them about the Father. / I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
John 10:15, 29, 30, 32, 33, 36–38 just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. / 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 12:26–28, 50 If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him. / Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour. / Father, glorify Your name!” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
John 13:3 Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.
John 14:2, 6–13, 16, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 31 In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? / Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. / And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 15:8–10, 16, 23, 24, 26 This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples. / As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. / If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
John 16:3, 10, 15, 23, 25–28 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me. / in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me; / Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.
John 17:1, 5, 11, 21, 24 When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You. / And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed. / I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
John 20:17, 21 “Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’” / Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.”
Acts 1:4 And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.
Acts 2:33 Exalted, then, 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.
Romans 1:3, 7 regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh, / To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
1 Corinthians 1:3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 8:6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.
1 Corinthians 15:24 Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.
2 Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
2 Corinthians 6:18 And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
Galatians 1:1, 3, 4 Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead— / Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, / who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Galatians 4:4–7 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, / to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons. / And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
Ephesians 1:2, 3, 17 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. / Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. / that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
Ephesians 2:18 For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Ephesians 3:14 ... for this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
Ephesians 4:6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Ephesians 5:20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 6:23 Peace to the brothers and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 1:2, 3, 12 To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father. / We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, / giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.
Colossians 2:2 that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,
Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
1 Thessalonians 1:1, 3 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you. / and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 3:11, 13 Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you. / so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.
2 Thessalonians 1:1, 2 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: / Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
Titus 1:4 To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
Hebrews 1:5, 6 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 12:9 Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
James 1:17, 27 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow. / Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 3:9 With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.
1 Peter 1:2, 3, 17 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance. / Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, / Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.
1 John 1:2 And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.
1 John 2:1, 13, 15, 22–24 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. / I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father. / 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 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has given to 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 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.
2 John 1:3, 4, 9 Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, will be with us in truth and love. / I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father has commanded us. / Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.
Jude 1:1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:
Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
Revelation 3:5 Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.
Revelation 14:1 Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.