Prayer: Conflict in Egypt

Father God,
You are a God of comfort and the Father of all compassion. Your arm is never too short to save, and You are mighty to deliver Your people who rest in the shadow of Your wings. Your glory and power are magnified as You fight for Your people who live in the midst of great oppression. Glory and thanks to You through Jesus for every act of mercy and grace shown to Your beloved who are living in the midst of great persecution in Egypt. May You place a firewall of protection around the men, women, and children who are suffering for the namesake of Christ and lead them to safety. May You comfort those who have lost loved ones and shield the eyes and hearts of the children from the trauma of the violent acts that have taken place. May You heal their wounded bodies and hearts, strengthening them in the Lord. May You strengthen them with hope in their inner beings by the Spirit, persevere their faith in Jesus, and grant them the gift of an eternal perspective of their temporal trials. May Your grace, love, and peace, and the grace, love, and peace of Jesus be magnified in their hearts, and may the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with them. May You intervene on their behalf and overcome the evil forces in their midst. May the power, light and love of Jesus Christ penetrate hearts and shine brightly in their midst, to the praise of Your glory and the glory of the powerful Name of Jesus Christ.
In Jesus’ Name I pray, Amen.

Prayer: Middle East Conflict

Father God,
Nothing is hidden from Your eyes. You see the present trials of Your beloved people who live in this present evil age, yet You view all within the context of eternity. In perfect wisdom and enduring faithfulness, You uphold and strengthen Your people in the Lord to endure. Your peace surpasses all understanding. Your grace is abounding and glorious. And Your eternal power and purposes cannot be thwarted. You are the shade on the right hand of Your sons and daughters, and You are the Rock that cannot be shaken. You intervene in power, and every glimpse of Your glory and tender compassion refreshes the hearts of all who take refuge in You. Thank You for the work that You are accomplishing in Syria in the midst of great oppression. Thank You for all whom You are turning to Jesus that they may be sanctified by faith in Him and receive the gift of eternal life in Your kingdom of glory. May You fan the flames of the Spirit’s power and gifts in Christ’s servants and give them boldness and courage to stand firm in the grace, love, and truth of Jesus. May You take captive all panic and fear, and may you grant courage to Your beloved in the midst of their suffering and trials. May they pray without ceasing and believe without wavering. May You gather Your own to rest in Your secure refuge, and may You give them a song of praise in their hearts to keep their minds, hearts, and eyes focused on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of their faith. Father, may You cause the Iron Dome in Israel to effectively intercept attacks on Israeli citizens, and may You grant wisdom to the Israeli leaders to act in the best interests of Your people in Your perfect time and strength. May You shield Your people who trust in You and may Your glory be revealed in their midst. May Your glory and the glory of Christ be revealed in the midst of all of the events taking place in the Middle East, and may many turn to You in hope and be sanctified by faith in Jesus. Your blessing be upon Your people who earnestly seek You, who are beloved in You and kept for Jesus.
In Jesus’ Name I pray,
Amen.

Genesis 1 - God the Creator, Sustainer, and Source of Life

Figure skating was my favorite childhood spectator sport in the Olympics. But it always began with frustration and boredom during the first phase of competition when the athletes were judged for exact precision in small patterns on the ice. No music, elaborate costumes, exhilarating spins, breathtaking jumps or devastating falls to entertain the spectators. Just endless figure eights on a fine edge while judges watched to detect the slightest deviation from a thin line in the ice cut by the same blade. 
Over and over again.

I would try to break the monotony by leaping around the room in my pajamas. But my awkward jumps and lack of coordination would quickly send me back to scrutinize the agonizing drills of trained athletes who knew the discipline that preceded the glory.

When I first began to study the Bible, I was filled with this familiar frustration, but also anticipation. The pages of my Bible were crisp with bare margins, one page clung to the other. While others flipped easily to familiar passages, I agonized to find the books. But soon, I became captivated by the Author and wanted to know more.

Who is the Creator? What did He create? Why did He create?

God alone can reveal the answers to such questions. But what can be known about God and His creation is revealed by God in the Bible, the only book that contains God’s divinely inspired revelation of truth about Himself, His works, and His purposes. “All Scripture is breathed out by God” (2 Tim 3:16a). God seeks worshipers who worship in spirit and truth. God reveals divine truth through the divinely inspired truths of Scripture. God's Word inspires praise and worship of God.

Perfecting praise and worship of God requires knowledge of God as Creator, Sustainer, and Source of life. God’s first revelation in the Bible begins with the account of creation in Genesis. Genesis 1 provides a divinely inspired account of creation, recorded by Moses, a prophet of God who was born in 1526 BC, who led Israel during the Great Exodus in 1446 BC, and who died in 1406 BC. Through Moses, God revealed the Scripture recorded in the first five books of the Bible, also called the Torah.

Genesis 1:1 reveals God as Creator. Genesis 1:2-19 reveals God as Sustainer. Genesis 1:20-31 reveals God as the Source of life. In Genesis 1, God reveals what must be known about God to perfect praise and worship of Him as Creator, Sustainer, and Source of life.

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen 1:1).

“In the beginning” reveals creation in relation to time, providing the first contrast between God and His creation. Whereas the heavens and earth had a beginning, God existed before that time. God is eternal. Finite minds are bound by the concept of finite time. But God eternally exists beyond the scope of the finite. God is infinite. God is eternal, which means that there is no time that God has not, does not, or will not exist.

The one eternal God has eternally existed in three distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The plurality in the Godhead is indicated in the name Elohim, the Name of God applied in Genesis 1. Elohim is the Hebrew plural form of El.

The three persons are not three different Gods, nor is God one person appearing in three different forms at various times. God is immutable. God has eternally coexisted in three distinct Persons who are co-equal, co-existent, and share the same divine essence.

The Father is not the Son or the Holy Spirit, but the Father is God. The Son is not the Father or the Holy Spirit, but the Son is God. The Holy Spirit is not the Father or the Son, but the Holy Spirit is God.

One God eternally exists in three distinct persons. Scripture acknowledges God the Father as the Creator and Sustainer of all that exists. God the Father created all things by, through and for His Son, Jesus Christ (John 1:1-18; Col 1:16), by and through the Holy Spirit who facilitates and energizes God’s creative will.

“God created” (Gen 1:1) reveals the action of God that resulted in the heavens and earth. The Hebrew verb ברא (bara), "to create", is used in the Bible invariably with God as the subject. God alone has the eternal power to create what previously did not exist. Creation exists because God created.

God created the heavens and earth. God dwells in majesty and splendor in the heavens, the place of His holy temple and throne of glory. "Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases" (Ps 115:3). He gave earth to humanity. "The heavens are the LORD's heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man" (Ps 115:16). God created the earth to be inhabited by the children of man.






~God is the Creator.

 Knowledge of God as the Creator of the heavens and earth inspires praise and worship of God.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. In His wisdom, He created them all. Clothed in splendor and majesty, covering Himself with light as with a cloak, God reigns from His upper chambers in glory, majesty, and power. The heavens are the LORD's. The earth is full of His possessions. The sea creatures flourish in the waters. God causes the eagle to take flight. God knows when a sparrow falls to the ground. God hears the cooing dove, the hooting owl, the mewing doe. They all wait for Him to give them their food. His eye sees every precious thing. His hand upholds.

God waters the mountains from His upper chambers, the beams which He laid upon the waters. God makes the clouds His chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind. He makes the winds His messenger, flaming fire His ministers. God established the earth on its foundations so that it will not totter forever and ever. God covered the earth with the deep and He delivered it from the depths of the sea, renewing the ground. The earth is satisfied by the fruit of the work of His hands. He causes grass to grow for the cattle and vegetation for the labor of man so that he may bring food from the earth.

God is exalted in the heavens and above the earth, yet He draws near to answer the cries of those who call on His Name through Jesus. He invites His children to cast their cares on Him for the eternal God cares for us. Blessed are all whose trust is in the blessed God Who created the heavens and the earth.

God keeps count of the strands of hair on the head of his beloved child. The same all-powerful God who can hold the oceans in the palm of His hand, who created and can shake the heavens and earth from their foundations, is the same tender God who promises to uphold the right hand of His child.

Who do you acknowledge as Creator? Do you know Him? Are you known by Him? How often does He hear your praise and worship? Are you familiar with His voice? When has He answered from His holy mountain? How often do you enter His Presence just to say, "I love You" or "Thank You"?

What is keeping you from delighting in the Creator of all that delights and satisfies?

God first reveals Himself as Creator. In Genesis 1:2-19, God reveals Himself as Sustainer.

In perfect wisdom and power, God created and prepared the perfect dwelling for His inhabitants. "The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters" (Gen 1:2).

Day 1: Light. "And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light." (Gen 1:3). God saw that the light was good. God separated light from the darkness. He called the light Day and the darkness He called Night.

Day 2: Heaven, an expanse in the midst of the waters, separated from the waters below.

Day 3: An expanse below, dry land which He called Earth and gathered waters which He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. "And God said, 'Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.' And it was so" (Gen 1:11). God saw that it was good.

Day 4: Lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, for signs and for seasons, for days and years, and to give light upon the earth. "And God made the two great lights--the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night--and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good" (Gen 1:16-18).

In four days, God shaped and formed creation to suit and sustain its inhabitants.


~God is the Sustainer.
 
God is the Creator. God is the Sustainer. The Spirit of God hovers over what was once formless, void and dark. In the beginning, the Spirit of God hovered over the deep to bring order and form to creation. Today, the Spirit of God hovers over the deep of sinners' hearts, ready to bring order and form to what was once formless, void, dark.

Apart from Christ, sinners are formless, void, and dark, a wasteland. Apart from Christ, sinners are dead. But to those whom God has qualified for the kingdom of Christ, removed from the sphere of darkness and placed in the light and glory of Christ, redeemed by His blood and renewed by the Holy Spirit, God is forming and molding His children of glory, conformed to the likeness of Christ. Over the lives of God's chosen and redeemed, the Spirit of God hovers, giving new life to what was dead.

"Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, 'What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him'" (1 Cor 2:6-9).

How have you responded to God's wisdom and truth revealed in the Bible? Trust and faith in God? Unbelief? What will be the eternal outcome of your response? Eternal delight in Christ's kingdom of eternal glory and light? Or eternal torment in the place of eternal darkness, condemnation, and death?

God first reveals Himself as Creator (Gen 1:1), then He reveals Himself as Sustainer (Gen 1:2-19), and finally, in Genesis 1:20-31, God reveals Himself the Source of life (1:20-31).

In four days, God formed and shaped the environment that He designed to be inhabited. In review, the content of what God made and saw was good in four days when the earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters was: light, which He called Day, and darkness, which He called Night, an expanse in the midst of the waters that He separated, which He called Heaven, dry land, which He called Earth, gathered waters, which He called Seas, vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit from the earth, lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, for signs and seasons, for days and years, and to give light upon the earth, two great lights to rule the day and night, and stars (Gen 1:2-19).

On days five and six, God created living creatures to dwell in the waters and on the earth.

Day 5: Swarms of living creatures in the waters, including great sea creatures and every living creature that swarms in the waters, and winged birds on the earth. Each was created according to their kinds. "And God blessed them, saying, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth'" (Gen 1:22).

Day 6: Livestock, creeping things, beasts of the earth. "And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good" (Gen 1:25).

Earth was prepared. Sea creatures were swimming. Waters were swarming. Birds were flying. Beasts were prowling. Livestock were grazing. Creeping things were creeping.

"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.' So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them" (Gen 1:26-27).

God created man in the image, after the likeness, of God. He created male and female. The other living creatures were made according to their kinds. But man was created in the image of God, to bear His likeness. And God gave them dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the livestock, all the earth, and over every creeping thing.

"And God blessed them. And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth'" (Gen 1:28).

God blessed humanity, commanded them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. He gave them dominion over all the living creatures on the earth. Man became steward of earth which God created and filled with His own possessions.

God gave man food to eat from every plant yielding seed on all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit (Gen 1:29). Later, God would introduce meat with cooking instructions into the diet of man. He gave animals green plants for food (Gen 1:30).

"And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day" (Gen 1:31).

God appraised all that He had made as very good. He delighted in the work of His hands. Creation was complete. God was satisfied. Man, male and female, were discovering the wonder of all that God had made in perfect communion and fellowship with the Creator.

~God is the Source of life.

God is the source of life. God created man, male and female. Humanity is His creation. God created life on earth for the purpose of glorifying and serving the Creator. Man was commanded to be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth, created to be inhabited.

Creation reflects the dynamic power and personality of the Creator. Diversity in the created world reflects God's appreciation of beauty in various shapes, forms, and colors. The greatness of God's work reveals His eternal power. No detail was overlooked. God is a personal God, revealed in His communion with man. God communes with people. God allows Himself to be known, and what can be known about God has been made known since the beginning. The glory of the Creator is revealed in His creation.

God is the Creator, the Sustainer, and the Source of life. There is no other. The account of creation was revealed by God and recorded through His servants by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The Bible contains the only divine explanation of creation. Creation points to the glory of the One and Only Creator. The Bible explains what human eyes see. The veil of unbelief is removed through Jesus Christ, through Whom God gives light and sight to the blind and new birth by the Spirit of God.

"Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it: 'I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness. I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols. Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them'" (Is 42:5-9).



Are you still dead in sin, imprisoned by the darkness? Who are you trusting to set you free? All who Jesus sets free are free indeed. Jesus is the Source of life to all who are sanctified by faith in Him. Jesus is making all things new. Jesus died on the cross to reconcile sinners to God in peace and love. 

The redeemed of Christ receive the free gift of eternal life and will enjoy everlasting communion with God. God raised Jesus from the dead, and His resurrection gives assurance of a future resurrection of glory and immortality to all who are sanctified by faith in Jesus. Will you seek Jesus to receive the gift of forgiveness of sin and eternal life in His kingdom of glory and light that will endure forever?

~God is the Creator, Sustainer, and Source of life.

I never went on to become an Olympic figure skater. But I do remember my first formal competition. After endless hours in the woods on the bare back of my pony, my parents brought us to our first horse show. The events and rider's etiquette were foreign to me. Someone politely informed me afterwards that a saddle is required in western pleasure.

But by God's grace, I won my first trophy. The speed event involved running a figure eight around two cones. Two riders had entered the event. I was up first. It never occurred to me to ask how many figure eights were required. After a few times around the cones, I was instructed to exit the arena. The next seasoned competitor rode by on a large steed without a glance as she entered the arena. Unfortunately, she knocked over a cone and was disqualified. So, I received the first place trophy. Amen.

Praise the LORD!

Father God,

You are the One True God, enthroned in majesty and splendor in Your holy temple in the heavens above, exalted above the earth. You are light, and in You no darkness dwells. You are holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, the earth is filled with Your glory. You are the Creator King, all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent. And You are compassionate, kind, and tender towards the work of Your hands. You are slow to anger and steadfast in love. You persevere with Your people in glorious grace and tender mercy, calling Your people to repentance, for You are love, perfect love that is eternal, complete, holy, righteous, pure, kind, and abiding.

You are just and You are the One who justifies sinners through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. You are a covenant God, and unlike men, You keep Your Word in abounding faithfulness that is greater than our sin and unbelief. You are greater than our hearts. Your faithfulness is greater than our sin and unbelief. Your wisdom is infinitely greater than our understanding. Your grace is abounding and immeasurable towards the redeemed in Christ.

You administer justice in perfect wisdom and righteousness. You righteously judge sin. Your judgments are just. Your judgments are true. Your judgments are righteous. Your judgments are justified. Your grace towards sinners is glorious, unmerited, infinite, and eternal. Blessed are all whom You save and sanctify by faith in the glorious, powerful Name of Jesus Christ.

You are righteous and love righteousness. You condemn sin and unbelief. Yet You are gracious, providing the Way for sinners to be reconciled to You in love and peace through the cross of Christ, imputing His perfect righteousness to sinners by faith and for faith, that we may become Your righteousness. And through the redeemed in Christ by the Spirit's power, Your glory is revealed.

At the cross, Your infinite holiness and glorious grace were perfectly revealed in Jesus' death.

At the cross, the wrath of Your offended holiness by sin was completely satisfied by Jesus.

Sanctified by faith in Jesus and redeemed by His powerful blood, Your people are forgiven.

Sanctified by faith in Jesus and redeemed by His powerful blood, Your people are set free.

Sanctified by faith in Jesus and redeemed by His powerful blood, Your people rejoice.

In a single day through the single sacrifice of Your Beloved Son, You have forgiven our sin, removed our inquity, and covered our nakedness with the garment of salvation. Jesus is our salvation. Your salvation endures forever. Every good work that You begin, You will carry to completion at the day of Christ Jesus. Blessed are the redeemed in Christ whom You promise to restore and glorify at His appearing. Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the LORD!

Glory and thanks to You through Jesus for Your grace and power to remove sinners from the darkness and place us in the kingdom of Christ, Whom You exalted, in Whom we abide, and through Whom perfect wisdom, righteousness, power, grace, peace, joy, and love will reign.

Glory to His powerful name and His eternal power to redeem and restore. Blessed are all who dwell in Your secret place under the shadow of the Almighty, resting in the soft folds of Your glory and grace. Blessed are Your people whom You have saved, shield, protect and provide, in whom You delight to dwell and in whom You have poured Your love through the Spirit.

Blessed is the Name of the LORD! Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the LORD! Blessed are all who bear His Name in Christ and who will dwell with Christ eternally!

In Jesus' Name I pray, Amen.

Prayer to the Creator King

Father God, You are the Creator King, clothed in splendor and majesty. You are the Sustainer of all that lives and of all that will endure forever. Your works are great and many, the earth is full of Your possessions. In wisdom, You created them all. Blessed are all whom You give eyes to see, ears to hear, and hearts to believe through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who is Lord over all, and through Whom You created all things that have been made, for apart from Jesus, nothing was made that exists. And apart from Jesus, nothing will endure. Jesus is the Author and Perfecter of the faith of all who are sanctified by faith in Him. Apart from Jesus, we can do nothing.

Our days were written in Your book before one of them came into being, for You are eternal, and Your knowledge is eternal. You know Your sons and daughters before they are formed in the womb, for You are our Creator and Your foreknowledge is perfect and eternal. All that You purpose, plan, and promise, You bring about in Your perfect power, strength, and time. You watch over Your Word to fulfill it, revealing Your glory and power. Salvation belongs to You. What is impossible for man is possible for You. For Your people were dead in sin. But now You have raised us up with Christ by the Holy Spirit Whom You sent to give life through the death, burial, and resurrection of Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

May You teach Your people to number our days aright, that we may gain hearts of wisdom. May Your Word be a lamp unto our feet, treasured in our hearts and dwelling richly in our minds, bearing fruit in and through the saints who are faithful in Christ. May our hearts be fully yielded to the Spirit's power, so that we may know and do Your will, that which is pleasing to Christ, walking in truth and love. May we make known the powerful Name of Jesus Christ, that many may be sanctified by faith in Him, for this is Your will.

May You be glorified in the Son through the lives of Your sons and daughters whom You have made holy and whom You are bringing into glory through Christ. May You bless and establish the work of Your servants' hands, strengthening us in the Lord and in the Holy Spirit's power. May You send many workers into the harvest whom are called and equipped. May Your blessing be upon Your people.

In Jesus' Name I pray, Amen.

דְּבַר­­­־יְהוָה "Word of the LORD"

Πατήρ "Father"

Greek Word Study:

Πατήρ (patér)

Definitions of Πατήρ: (BDAG, 786)

1.     the immediate biological ancestor, parent

2.     one from whom one is descended and generally at least several generations removed, forefather, ancestor, progenitor, forebear

3.     one who provides moral and intellectual upbringing, father

4.     a title of respectful address, father

5.     revered deceased persons with whom one shares beliefs or traditions, fathers, ancestors

6.     The supreme deity, who is responsible for the origin and care of all that exists, Father, Parent

Greek New Testament (GNT-T) Appearances of Πατήρ “Father”:

Matt. 2:22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee.

Matt. 3:9 And do not presume to say to yourselves,  ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

Matt. 4:21 And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.  22 Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

Matt. 5:16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Matt. 5:45  so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Matt. 5:48  You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. 1 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Matt. 6:4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matt. 6:6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.  And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matt. 6:8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9  Pray then like this:

              “Our Father in heaven,

              hallowed be your name.

Matt. 6:14    For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matt. 6:18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret.  And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matt. 6:26  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?

Matt. 6:32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

Matt. 7:11 If you then, who are 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!

Matt. 7:21    “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Matt. 8:21 Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”

Matt. 10:20  For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. 21  Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

Matt. 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?  And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Matt. 10:32  So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 33 but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

Matt. 10:35  For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Matt. 10:37  Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Matt. 11:25    At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and  revealed them to little children; 26 yes, Father, for such was your  gracious will.  27  All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son  except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Matt. 12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Matt. 13:43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.  He who has ears, let him hear.

Matt. 15:4 For God commanded,  ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and,  ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 5 But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,”  6 he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.

Matt. 15:13 He answered,  “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted  will be rooted up.

Matt. 16:17 And Jesus answered him,  “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-jonah! For  flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Matt. 16:27  For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.

Matt. 18:10   “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Matt. 18:14 So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Matt. 18:19 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

Matt. 18:35  So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”

Matt. 19:5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Matt. 19:19 Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matt. 19:29  And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold  and will  inherit eternal life.

Matt. 20:23 He said to them,  “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

Matt. 21:31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.

Matt. 23:9  And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Matt. 23:30 saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

Matt. 23:32  Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Matt. 24:36   “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

Matt. 25:34 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Matt. 26:29 I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

Matt. 26:39 And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”

Matt. 26:42 Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”

Matt. 26:53  Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Matt. 28:19  Go therefore and make disciples of  all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Mark 1:20 And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him.

Mark 5:40 And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.

Mark 7:10 For Moses said,  ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and,  ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God) — 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,

Mark 8:38 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Mark 9:21 And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

Mark 9:24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

Mark 10:7  ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,

Mark 10:19 You know the commandments:  ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”

Mark 10:29 Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

Mark 11:10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!  Hosanna in the highest!”

Mark 11:25 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Mark 13:12  And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

Mark 13:32   “But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Mark 14:36 And he said,  “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove  this cup from me.  Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Mark 15:21    And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.

Luke 1:17 and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just,  to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”

Luke 1:32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David,

Luke 1:55     as he spoke to our fathers,

                         to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”

Luke 1:59 And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father,

Luke 1:62 And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he wanted him to be called.

Luke 1:67   And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,

Luke 1:72      to show the mercy promised to our fathers

                        and to remember his holy covenant,

73        the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us

Luke 2:33   And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him.

Luke 2:48 And when his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.”  49 And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

Luke 3:8 Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

Luke 6:23  Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.

Luke 6:26   “Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

Luke 6:36  Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Luke 8:51 And when he came to the house, he allowed no one to enter with him, except Peter and John and James, and the father and mother of the child.

Luke 9:26 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of  the holy angels.

Luke 9:42 While he was coming, the demon threw him to the ground and convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Luke 9:59 To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”

Luke 10:21    In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father,  Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and  revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for  such was your gracious will.  22  All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

Luke 11:2 And he said to them,  “When you pray, say:

              “Father, hallowed be your name.

              Your kingdom come.

Luke 11:11 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent;

Luke 11:13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Luke 11:47  Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. 48  So you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.

Luke 12:30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

Luke 12:32    “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Luke 12:53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

Luke 14:26  “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Luke 15:12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them.

Luke 15:17   “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.

Luke 15:20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.  I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’  22 But the father said to his servants,  ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

Luke 15:27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.’ 28 But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, 29 but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might  celebrate with my friends.

Luke 16:24 And he called out,  ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’

Luke 16:27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house—

Luke 16:30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’

Luke 18:20 You know the commandments:  ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’”

Luke 22:29 and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom,

Luke 22:42 saying,  “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me.  Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

Luke 23:34 And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”  And they cast lots to divide his garments.

Luke 23:46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I  commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

Luke 24:49 And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with  power from on high.”

John 1:14   And the Word  became flesh and  dwelt among us,  and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of  grace and  truth.

John 1:18  No one has ever seen God;  the only God, who is at the Father’s side,   he has made him known.

John 2:16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”

John 3:35  The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.

John 4:12  Are you greater than our father Jacob?  He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

John 4:20  Our fathers worshiped on  this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”  21 Jesus said to her,  “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

John 4:23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

John 4:53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.

John 5:17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

John 5:18   This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him,  because not only was he  breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

John 5:19   So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son  can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel. 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. 22  The Father judges no one, but  has given all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son, just as they  honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

John 5:26  For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.

John 5:36 But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me  to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me  has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

John 5:43 I have come in my Father’s name, and  you do not receive me.  If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

John 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

John 6:27  Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has  set his seal.”

John 6:31  Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written,  ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”  32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

John 6:37  All that  the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and  believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

John 6:42 They said,  “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And  I will raise him up on the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets,  ‘And they will all be taught by God.’  Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— 46  not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.

John 6:49  Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

John 6:57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. 58  This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread  the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”

John 6:65 And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

John 7:22  Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

John 8:16 Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.

John 8:18 I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.” 19 They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered,  “You know neither me nor my Father.  If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

John 8:27 They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.  28 So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.

John 8:38  I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

John 8:39   They answered him,  “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them,  “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,

John 8:41 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him,  “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.”  42 Jesus said to them,  “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here.  I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

John 8:44  You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.  When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

John 8:53  Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?”  54 Jesus answered,  “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing.  It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’

John 8:56  Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day.  He saw it and was glad.”

John 10:15  just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

John 10:17  For this reason the Father loves me,  because  I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18  No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again.  This charge I have received from my Father.”

John 10:25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe.  The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me,

John 10:29 My Father, who has given them to me,   is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of  the Father’s hand. 30  I and the Father are one.”

John 10:32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”

John 10:36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and  sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because  I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37  If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38 but if I do them,  even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”

John 11:41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.

John 12:26 If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also.  If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

John 12:27    “Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”

John 12:49 For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father  who sent me has himself given me  a commandment—what to say and what to speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”

John 13:1   Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come  to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

John 13:3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

John 14:2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and  the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7  If you had known me, you would have  known my Father also.  From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

John 14:8    Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”  9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip?  Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else  believe on account of the works themselves.

John 14:12   “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I  am going to the Father. 13  Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper,  to be with you forever,

John 14:20  In that day you will know that  I am in my Father, and  you in me, and  I in you. 21  Whoever has my commandments and  keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me  will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and  manifest myself to him.”

John 14:23 Jesus answered him,  “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,  he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

John 14:28  You heard me say to you,  ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

John 14:31 but I do as the Father has commanded me,  so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here. 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is  the vinedresser.

John 15:8  By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9  As the Father has loved me,  so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10  If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

John 15:15  No longer do I call you servants,  for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for  all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and  bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 15:23  Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24  If I had not done among them the works that no one else did,  they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have  seen and hated both me and my Father.

John 15:26   “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

John 16:3 And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

John 16:10  concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer;

John 16:15  All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

John 16:17 So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us,  ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and,  ‘because I am going to the Father’?”

John 16:23  In that day you will  ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you,  whatever you ask of the Father in my name,  he will give it to you.

John 16:25   “I have said these things to you in figures of speech.  The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father. 26 In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; 27 for the Father himself loves you, because  you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.  28  I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

John 16:32 Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when  you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone.  Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

John 17:1   When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,

John 17:5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

John 17:11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you.  Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me,  that they may be one,  even as we are one.

John 17:21  that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world  may believe that you have sent me.

John 17:24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me  where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me  before the foundation of the world. 25  O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.

John 18:11 So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?”

John 20:17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them,  ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

John 20:21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me,  even so I am sending you.”

Acts 1:4   And while staying  with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me;

Acts 1:7 He said to them,  “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.

Acts 2:33  Being therefore  exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.

Acts 3:13  The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,  the God of our fathers,  glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and  denied in the presence of Pilate,  when he had decided to release him.

Acts 3:25  You are the sons of the prophets and of  the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham,  ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’

Acts 4:25 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit,

              “‘Why did the Gentiles rage,

                        and the peoples plot in vain?

Acts 5:30  The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.

Acts 7:2 And Stephen said:

  “Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia,  before he lived in Haran,

Acts 7:4  Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And  after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.

Acts 7:11 Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.  12  But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.

Acts 7:14 And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred,  seventy-five persons in all.  15 And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he  and our fathers,

Acts 7:19  He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.  20  At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God’s sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father’s house,

Acts 7:32  ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.

Acts 7:38 This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers.  He received living  oracles to give to us.  39 Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and  in their hearts they turned to Egypt,

Acts 7:44   “Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses  directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen.  45 Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David,

Acts 7:51    “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit.  As your fathers did, so do you.  52  Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,

Acts 13:17  The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

Acts 13:32 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,

Acts 13:36   For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,

Acts 15:10 Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

Acts 16:1   Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named  Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek.

Acts 16:3 Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

Acts 22:1    “Brothers and fathers, hear the defense that I now make before you.”

Acts 22:14 And he said, ‘The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth;

Acts 26:6 And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,

Acts 28:8 It happened that the father of Publius lay sick with fever and dysentery. And Paul visited him and prayed, and  putting his hands on him healed him.

Acts 28:25 And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement:  “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:

Rom. 1:7   To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints:

  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Rom. 4:11  He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,  12 and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Rom. 4:16   That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham,  who is the father of us all,  17 as it is written,  “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed,  who gives life to the dead and calls into existence  the things that do not exist.  18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told,  “So shall your offspring be.”

Rom. 6:4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Rom. 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry,  “Abba! Father!”

Rom. 9:5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

Rom. 9:10 And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,

Rom. 11:28   As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.

Rom. 15:6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Rom. 15:8   For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,

1Cor. 1:3    Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1Cor. 4:15 For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

1Cor. 5:1   It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife.

1Cor. 8:6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and  through whom we exist.

1Cor. 10:1   For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

1Cor. 15:24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.

2Cor. 1:2    Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2Cor. 1:3    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

2Cor. 6:18     and I will be a father to you,

                        and you shall be sons and daughters to me,

             says the Lord Almighty.”

2Cor. 11:31  The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever,  knows that I am not lying.

Gal. 1:1  Paul, an  apostle— not from men nor through man, but  through Jesus Christ and God the Father,  who raised him from the dead—

Gal. 1:3    Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,  4  who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

Gal. 4:2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

Gal. 4:6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

Eph. 1:2    Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Eph. 1:3    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

Eph. 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

Eph. 2:18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

Eph. 3:14   For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

Eph. 4:6  one God and Father of all,  who is over all and through all and in all.

Eph. 5:20  giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father  in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Eph. 5:31  “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

Eph. 6:2  “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Eph. 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Eph. 6:23    Peace be to the brothers, and  love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Phil. 1:2    Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Phil. 2:11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Phil. 2:22 But you know Timothy’s proven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.

Phil. 4:20 To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Col. 1:2   To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae:

  Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

Col. 1:3    We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

Col. 1:12  giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

Col. 3:17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Col. 3:21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

1Th. 1:1  Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,

 To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

  Grace to you and peace.

1Th. 1:3 remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of  love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

1Th. 2:11 For you know how, like a father with his children,

1Th. 3:11   Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus,  direct our way to you,

1Th. 3:13 so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

2Th. 1:1   Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,

 To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

2Th. 1:2   Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2Th. 2:16   Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good  hope through grace,

1Tim. 1:2   To Timothy, my true child in the faith:

  Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

1Tim. 5:1    Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father,  younger men as brothers,

2Tim. 1:2   To Timothy, my beloved child:

  Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Titus 1:4   To Titus, my true child in a common faith:

  Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

Philem. 3    Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Heb. 1:1  Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,

Heb. 1:5   For to which of the angels did God ever say,

              “You are my Son,

                        today I have begotten you”?

 Or again,

              “I will be to him a father,

                        and he shall be to me a son”?

Heb. 3:9       where your fathers put me to the test

                        and saw my works for forty years.

Heb. 7:10 for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.

Heb. 8:9        not like the covenant that I made with their fathers

                        on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

             For they did not continue in my covenant,

                        and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.

Heb. 11:23   By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of  the king’s edict.

Heb. 12:7   It is for discipline that you have to endure.  God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Heb. 12:9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

James 1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

James 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this:  to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

James 2:21  Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?

James 3:9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

1Pet. 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,  in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood:

 May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

1Pet. 1:3    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!  According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope  through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1Pet. 1:17 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,

2Pet. 1:17 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory,  “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”

2Pet. 3:4  They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”

1John 1:2  the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—  3  that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

1John 2:1   My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

1John 2:13 I am writing to you, fathers,

                        because you know him who is from the beginning.

             I am writing to you, young men,

                        because you have overcome the evil one.

             I write to you, children,

                        because you know the Father.

14       I write to you, fathers,

                        because you know him who is from the beginning.

             I write to you, young men,

                        because you are strong,

                        and the word of God abides in you,

                        and you have overcome the evil one.

1John 2:15    Do not love the world or the things in the world.  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  16 For all that is in the world— the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life —is not from the Father but is from the world.

1John 2:22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.  23  No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.  24 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.

1John 3:1   See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1John 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of  the world.

2John 3    Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.

2John 4    I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.

2John 9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Jude 1  Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James,

  To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:

Rev. 1:6 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Rev. 2:27 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. 28 And I will give him the morning star.

Rev. 3:5  The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

Rev. 3:21  The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Rev. 14:1   Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.