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Malachi 1:6
“ A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me? says the LORD of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.” Yet you ask,“ How have we despised your name?”
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Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we had human fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn’t we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?
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1John 3:1
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Romans 8:14-17
For all those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear. Instead, you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out,“ Abba, Father!”The Spirit himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children,and if children, also heirs— heirs of God and coheirs with Christ— if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
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Job 32:21-22
I will be partial to no one, and I will not give anyone an undeserved title.For I do not know how to give such titles; otherwise, my Maker would remove me in an instant.
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1 Corinthians 4 15
For you may have countless instructors in Christ, but you don’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
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Matthew 7:11
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 1-1 Timothy 5 2
Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters with all purity.
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2 Kings 2 12
As Elisha watched, he kept crying out,“ My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” When he could see him no longer, he took hold of his own clothes, tore them in two,
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2 Kings 6 21
When the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha,“ Should I kill them, should I kill them, my father?”
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2 Corinthians 6 18
And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.
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Acts 22:1
“ Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense before you.”
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2 Kings 13 14
When Elisha became sick with the illness from which he died, King Jehoash of Israel went down and wept over him and said,“ My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”
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Matthew 6:8-9
Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask him.“ Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy.
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Matthew 6:32
For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
