“Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

“I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord: He said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.

“Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me, Since I have been bereaved of my children And am barren, an exile and a wanderer? And who has reared these? Behold, I was left alone; From where did these come?’”

The Word Made Flesh

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘You are My Son; today i have begotten You.’

Plea for Onesimus, a Free Man

I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment,

For to which of the angels did He ever say, “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You”? And again, “I will be a Father to Him And He shall be a Son to Me”?

So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest, but He who said to Him, “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You”;

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son;

By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.