Matthew 23:9
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9 Do not call anyone on earth your father; (A)for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.
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1 John 3:1
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The Command to Love
3 Behold (A)what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that (B)we should be called children of [a]God! Therefore the world does not know [b]us, (C)because it did not know Him.
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- 1 John 3:1 NU adds And we are.
- 1 John 3:1 M you
Hebrews 12:9
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9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to (A)the Father of spirits and live?
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Malachi 1:6
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Polluted Offerings
6 “A son (A)honors his father,
And a servant his master.
(B)If then I am the Father,
Where is My honor?
And if I am a Master,
Where is My reverence?
Says the Lord of hosts
To you priests who despise My name.
(C)Yet you say, ‘In what way have we despised Your name?’
Job 32:21-22
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21 Let me not, I pray, show partiality to anyone;
Nor let me flatter any man.
22 For I do not know how to flatter,
Else my Maker would soon take me (A)away.
Romans 8:14-17
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14 For (A)as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For (B)you did not receive the spirit of bondage again (C)to fear, but you received the (D)Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, (E)“Abba,[a] Father.” 16 (F)The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then (G)heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, (H)if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
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- Romans 8:15 Lit., in Aram., Father
Matthew 7:11
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11 If you then, (A)being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
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1 Timothy 5:1-2
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Treatment of Church Members
5 Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.
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1 Corinthians 4:15
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15 For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for (A)in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
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Matthew 6:8-9
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8 “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father (A)knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. 9 In this (B)manner, therefore, pray:
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2 Corinthians 6:18
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Acts 22:1
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Paul’s Defense at Jerusalem
22 “Brethren(A) and fathers, hear my defense before you now.”
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2 Kings 2:12
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12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried out, (A)“My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” So he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.
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Matthew 6:32
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32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For 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 Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die. Then Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, “O my father, my father, (A)the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!”
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2 Kings 6:21
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21 Now when the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “My (A)father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”
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