God as Father
360 passages
| God as Father in the OT (Explicit) | ||
| Dt 32:6 |
Is this the way you repay the
Lord
, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?
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| 2 Sa 7:14 |
I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands.
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| Ps 68:5 |
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
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| Ps 89:26–27 | ||
| Is 63:16 |
But you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us or Israel acknowledge us; you,
Lord
, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
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| Is 64:8 |
Yet you,
Lord
, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
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| Je 2:27 |
They say to wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’
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| Je 3:4 |
Have you not just called to me: ‘My Father, my friend from my youth,
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| Je 3:19 |
“I myself said, “ ‘How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.’ I thought you would call me ‘Father’ and not turn away from following me.
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| Je 31:9 |
They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel’s father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.
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| Mal 2:10 |
Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our ancestors by being unfaithful to one another?
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| God as Father in the OT (Implicit) | ||
| Is 1:2 |
Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the
Lord
has spoken: “I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
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| Is 43:6 |
I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth—
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| Is 45:11 |
“This is what the
Lord
says— the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things to come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands?
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| Je 31:20 |
Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the
Lord
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| Compared to a Father | ||
| Dt 1:31 |
and in the wilderness. There you saw how the
Lord
your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”
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| Ps 103:13 |
As a father has compassion on his children, so the
Lord
has compassion on those who fear him;
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