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3962. pater -- a father
... Just as in the NT, the OT never speaks of universal fatherhood of God toward
men (see. GB Steven's concession, , p 70; see p 68) ( 1, 6). ...
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Exodus 4:22
And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus said the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
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Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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Deuteronomy 32:5,6
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
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2 Samuel 7:14
I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
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1 Chronicles 28:6
And he said to me, Solomon your son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
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1 Chronicles 29:10
Why David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be you, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
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Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Psalm 89:26
He shall cry to me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
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Isaiah 1:2
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
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Isaiah 8:18
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwells in mount Zion.
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Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
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Isaiah 63:16
Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: you, O LORD, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from everlasting.
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Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
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Jeremiah 3:19
But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, You shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away from me.
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Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
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Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
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Matthew 3:17
And see a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
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Matthew 5:45
That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
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Matthew 6:4,6,8,9
That your alms may be in secret: and your Father which sees in secret himself shall reward you openly.
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Matthew 7:11
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
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Matthew 10:20,29,32,33
For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you.
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Matthew 11:25-27
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes.
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Matthew 12:50
For whoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
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Matthew 13:43
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who has ears to hear, let him hear.
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Matthew 15:13
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.
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Matthew 16:17,27
And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father which is in heaven.
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Matthew 18:10,14,19
Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
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Matthew 20:23
And he said to them, You shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not my to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
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Matthew 26:29,39,42
But I say to you, I will not drink from now on of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.
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Mark 8:38
Whoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
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Mark 11:25,26
And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
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Mark 13:32
But of that day and that hour knows no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
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Luke 2:49
And he said to them, How is it that you sought me? knew you not that I must be about my Father's business?
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Luke 10:21,22
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in your sight.
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Luke 11:2,13
And he said to them, When you pray, say, Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
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Luke 22:29
And I appoint to you a kingdom, as my Father has appointed to me;
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Luke 23:46
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into your hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
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Luke 24:49
And, behold, I send the promise of my Father on you: but tarry you in the city of Jerusalem, until you be endued with power from on high.
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John 1:14,18
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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John 2:16
And said to them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
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John 4:21,23
Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
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John 5:17-23,36,37,43
But Jesus answered them, My Father works till now, and I work.
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John 6:27,32,44-46
Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give to you: for him has God the Father sealed.
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John 8:19,27,38,41,42,49
Then said they to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know me, nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also.
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John 10:15,29,30,32,33,36-38
As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
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John 12:26-28,50
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honor.
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John 13:3
Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;
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John 14:2,6-13,16,20,21,23,24,26,31
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
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John 15:8-10,16,23,24,26
Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.
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John 16:3,10,15,23,25-28
And these things will they do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
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John 17:1,5,11,21,24
These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you:
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John 20:17,21
Jesus said to her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brothers, and say to them, I ascend to my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
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Acts 1:4
And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, you have heard of me.
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Acts 2:33
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear.
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Romans 1:3,7
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
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Romans 8:15
For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
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1 Corinthians 1:3
Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 8:6
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
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1 Corinthians 15:24
Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
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2 Corinthians 1:3
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
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2 Corinthians 6:18
And will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, said the Lord Almighty.
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Galatians 1:1,3,4
Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
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Galatians 4:4-7
But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
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Ephesians 1:2,3,17
Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Ephesians 2:18
For through him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
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Ephesians 3:14
For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Ephesians 4:6
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
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Ephesians 5:20
Giving thanks always for all things to God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
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Ephesians 6:23
Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Philippians 1:2
Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Colossians 1:2,3,12
To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Colossians 2:2
That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
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Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
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1 Thessalonians 1:1,3
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Thessalonians 3:11,13
Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.
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2 Thessalonians 1:1,2
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
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2 Thessalonians 2:16
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
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Titus 1:4
To Titus, my own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
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Hebrews 1:5,6
For to which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
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Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
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James 1:17,27
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no ficklenss, neither shadow of turning.
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James 3:9
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
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1 Peter 1:2,3,17
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.
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1 John 1:2
(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show to you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us;)
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1 John 2:1,13,15,22-24
My little children, these things write I to you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
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1 John 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
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1 John 4:14
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
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2 John 1:3,4,9
Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
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Jude 1:1
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
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Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
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Revelation 3:5
He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
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Revelation 14:1
And I looked, and, see, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
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Library

The Fatherhood of God
... The Fatherhood of God. A Sermon (No.213). Delivered on Sabbath Morning, September
12, 1858, by the. REV. ... The fatherhood of God is common to all his children. Ah! ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/the fatherhood of god.htm

'Our Father'
... But the true Christian idea of God's fatherhood is more than all this. ... There is no
brotherhood but that which rests on God's Fatherhood, Christ's Sonship. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/our father.htm

"The Kind, Loving, Mother"
... And in this I saw that all our duty that we owe, by God's bidding, to Fatherhood
and Motherhood, for [reason of] God's Fatherhood and Motherhood is fulfilled ...
/.../julian/revelations of divine love/chapter lx the kind loving.htm

Our Lord's Model Prayer
... without it. It belongs to the first and last lessons in prayer. God's Fatherhood
gives shape, value and confidence to all our praying. ...
/.../bounds/the reality of prayer/x our lords model prayer.htm

Counting on Us.
... And with God fatherhood means motherhood too, you know. I do not know if it
were so. But I think it's likely. It would be just like God. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on service/counting on us.htm

The Witness of the Spirit
... There is all the difference in the world between searching for evidence of my
sonship, and seeking to get the conviction of God's Fatherhood. ...
/.../romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/the witness of the spirit.htm

Index.
... Fatherhood, of God, 32; Old Testament conception of God's, 145; Christ's conception
of God's, 145. ... Resentment belongs to God's fatherhood, 32. ...
/.../edwards/the expositors bible the epistle to the hebrews/index 2.htm

Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity
... Galatians, Epistle to the, 62, 65 Galilee, 1-35, 39, 73, 86 Gentiles, 86 Gfroerer,
A., 63 Gnosticism, 125 God, Fatherhood of, 81 kingdom of, 23 the Son, 81 ...
/.../lake/landmarks in the history of early christianity/index 2.htm

The Tables Turned: the Questioners Questioned
... to God. It is vain to try to create brotherhood among men unless the sense
of God's fatherhood is its foundation. Love of neighbours ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/the tables turned the questioners.htm

Introductory Address
... But what is the meaning of God's Fatherhood and man's sonship? The ultimate
truth of the relationship, the truth which underlies ...
//christianbookshelf.org/beibitz/gloria crucis/i introductory address.htm

Subtopics

God

God Accepting Me

God Answering Prayers

God Being Our Husband

God for Other Anthropomorphic Scriptures by Israel

God for Other Anthropomorphic Scriptures: Saul

God Forgiving

God Giving Talent

God in Prospering Asa

God in Prospering Daniel

God in Prospering Hezekiah