Matthew 23:9
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9 And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father, the one in heaven.(A)
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1 John 3:1
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Hebrews 12:9
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9 Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
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Malachi 1:6
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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)
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Job 32:21-22
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21 I will not show partiality to any person
or use flattery toward anyone.(A)
22 For I do not know how to flatter—
or my Maker would soon put an end to me!(B)
Romans 8:14-17
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14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.(A) 15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba![a] Father!”(B) 16 it is that very Spirit bearing witness[b] with our spirit that we are children of God,(C) 17 and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if we in fact suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.(D)
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Matthew 7:11
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11 If you, then, 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!
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1 Timothy 5:1-2
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Duties toward Believers
5 Do not speak harshly to an older man,[a] but speak to him as to a father, to younger men as brothers,(A) 2 to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters—with absolute purity.
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- 5.1 Or an elder or a presbyter
1 Corinthians 4:15
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15 For though you might have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Indeed, in Christ Jesus I fathered you through the gospel.(A)
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Matthew 6:8-9
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8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
9 “Pray, then, in this way:
Our Father in heaven,
may your name be revered as holy.
2 Corinthians 6:18
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18 and I will be your father,
and you shall be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”(A)
Acts 22:1
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22 “Brothers[a] and fathers, listen to the defense that I now make before you.”(A)
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- 22.1 Gk Men, brothers
2 Kings 2:12
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12 Elisha kept watching and crying out, “Father, father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” But when he could no longer see him, he grasped his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.(A)
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Matthew 6:32
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32 For it is the gentiles who seek all these things, and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
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2 Kings 13:14
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Death of Elisha
14 Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, King Joash of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”(A)
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2 Kings 6:21
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21 When the king of Israel saw them he said to Elisha, “Father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”(A)
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