¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you.

³² For it is the gentiles who seek all these things, and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and through grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

¹³ And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.^[a](A)

³² “Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.^(A)

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?^(A)

⁸ Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

⁹ “Pray, then, in this way:

Corruption of the Priesthood

⁶ A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is the honor due me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, “How have we despised your name?”^(A)

3 ¹ See what love the Father has given 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.