If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.

and I will be to you for a Father, and ye -- ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?

one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in you all,

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who is in the heavens is perfect.

'Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf -- a stone will he present to him?

Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not -- reward ye have not from your Father who is in the heavens;

If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he is the untimely birth.'

A wise son rejoiceth a father. And a foolish man is despising his mother.

I and the Father are one.'

Sons' sons are the crown of old men, And the glory of sons are their fathers.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son is an affliction to his mother.

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself,

Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

Fathers are not put to death for sons, and sons are not put to death for fathers -- each for his own sin, they are put to death.

and ye may not call any your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

And Jesus said to him, 'Why me dost thou call good? no one is good except One -- God;

honour thy father and mother,

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

And Jesus said to him, 'Why me dost thou call good? no one is good, except One -- God;

'If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

which is the first command with a promise, 'That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'

'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

for ye are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father that is speaking in you.

and the son said to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son.

that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

and do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, God of their fathers, and He giveth them to desolation, as ye do see.

having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee,

'He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

'And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,