'Father' in the Bible
While being together and eating with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Of which,” He said, “you have heard Me speak.
He said to them, “It is not for you to know the times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority.
Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out this [blessing] which you both see and hear.
Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, God sent him to this country in which you now live.
And God gave Abraham a covenant [a formal agreement to be strictly observed] of [which] circumcision [was the sign]; and so [under these circumstances] Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac [became the father] of Jacob, and Jacob [became the father] of the twelve patriarchs.
Then Joseph sent and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five persons in all.
At this remark Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons.
Now Paul traveled to Derbe and also to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer [in Christ], however, his father was a Greek.
Paul wanted Timothy to go with him [as a missionary]; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, since they all knew that his father was a Greek.
And it happened that the father of Publius was sick [in bed] with recurring attacks of fever and dysentery; and Paul went to him, and after he had prayed, he laid his hands on him and healed him.
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Bible Theasaurus
- Beget (22 instances)
- Begetter (1 instance)
- Don (1 instance)
- Father (1255 instances)
- Fatherhood (1 instance)
- Forefather (47 instances)
- Founder (7 instances)
- Generate (1 instance)
- Mother (376 instances)
- Parent (5 instances)
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- Absent Fathers
- Being A Good Father
- Christ's Knowledge Of The Father
- Circumcision, physical
- Death Of A Father
- Examples Of Fathers' Love
- Father And Daughter Relationships
- Father And Son Alike
- Father And Son In One Another
- Fatherless, Examples Of
- Fathers
- Fathers And Daughters
- Fathers And Sons
- Fathers Birthday
- Fathers In Laws
- Fathers Love
- Fathers Loving Care
- Fathers Responsibilities
- Fathers Teaching
- Fathers, Examples Of
- Fathers, Responsibilities Of
- Fathers, Sin Of The
- God Of The Fathers
- God's Covenant With The Patriarchs
- God, Fatherhood Of
- Interaction Of Father And Son
- Jesus Christ, Relation To Father
- Jesus Returning To The Father