'Father' in the Bible

because it is the unbelievers who are concerned about all these things. Surely your Father knows that you need them!

Stop being afraid, little flock, because your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.

They will be divided father against son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as his own life, he can't be my disciple.

The younger one told his father, "Father, give me my share of the estate.' So the father divided his property between them.

I will get up, go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and you.

"So he got up and went to his father. While he was still far away, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, threw his arms around him, and kissed him affectionately.

Then his son told him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and you. I don't deserve to be called your son anymore.'

But the father told his servants, "Hurry! Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

The servant told him, "Your brother has come home, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got him back safely.'

"Then the older son became angry and wouldn't go into the house. So his father came out and began to plead with him.

But he answered his father, "Listen! All these years I've worked like a slave for you. I've never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you've never given me so much as a young goat for a festival so I could celebrate with my friends.

"His father told him, "My child, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.

So he shouted, "Father Abraham, have mercy on me! Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool off my tongue, because I am suffering in this fire.'

"The rich man said, "Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house

"But the rich man replied, "No, father Abraham! But if someone from the dead went to them, they would repent.'

You know the commandments: "Never commit adultery. Never murder. Never steal. Never give false testimony. Honor your father and mother.'"

And I confer a kingdom on you, just as my Father has conferred a kingdom on me,

"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done."

Jesus kept saying, "Father, forgive them, because they don't know what they're doing." Then they divided his clothes among them by throwing dice.

Then Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said, "Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit." After he said this, he breathed his last.

I am sending to you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."

The Father loves the Son and has put everything in his hands.

Jesus told her, "Believe me, dear lady, the hour is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working."

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise.

The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him even greater actions than these, so that you may be amazed.

Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to those he chooses.

The Father judges no one, but has given all authority to judge to the Son,

so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

Just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

"But I have a greater testimony than John's, because the actions that the Father has given me to complete the very actions that I am doing testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

Moreover, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen what he looks like,

Do not suppose that I will be the one to accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope,

Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

Everything the Father gives me will come to me, and I'll never turn away the one who comes to me.

They kept saying, "This is Jesus, the son of Joseph, isn't it, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, "I have come down from heaven'?"

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

It is written in the Prophets, "And all of them will be taught by God.' Everyone who has listened to the Father and has learned anything comes to me.

Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who comes from God. This one has seen the Father.

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will also live because of me.

So he said, "That's why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

I'm testifying about myself, and the Father who sent me is testifying about me."

Then they asked him, "Where is this Father of yours?"

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

They didn't realize that he was talking to them about the Father.

So Jesus told them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.

I declare what I've seen in my Father's presence, and you're doing what you've heard from your father."

They replied to him, "Our father is Abraham!"

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would've loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven't come on my own accord, but he sent me.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon. On the contrary, I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

You aren't greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? The prophets also died. Who are you making yourself out to be?"

Jesus answered, "If I were trying to glorify myself, my glory would mean nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, "He is our God.'

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it back again.

No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is what my Father has commanded me."

What my Father has given me is more important than anything, and no one can snatch it from the Father's hand.

I and the Father are one."

Jesus replied to them, "I've shown you many good actions from my Father. For which of them are you going to stone me?"

how can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, "You're blaspheming,' because I said, "I'm the Son of God'?

But if I'm doing them, even though you don't believe me, believe the actions, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

Then Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

If anyone serves me, he must follow me. And where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him."

"Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say "Father, save me from this hour'? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.

Father, glorify your name."

because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.

And I know that what he commands brings eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me."

Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his control, that he had come from God, and that he was returning to God,

Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

If you have known me, you will also know my Father. From now on you know him and have seen him."

Philip told him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will satisfy us."

"Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?" Jesus asked him. "The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, "Show us the Father'?

You believe, don't you, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I don't speak on my own. It is the Father who dwells in me and who carries out his work.

Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe me because of what I've been doing.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.

I'll do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

I will ask the Father to give you another Helper, to be with you always.

At that time, you'll know that I am in my Father, that you are in me, and that I am in you.

The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and reveal myself to him."

Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. Then my Father will love him, and we will go to him and make our home within him.

The one who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The words that you're hearing me say are not mine, but come from the Father who sent me.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you.

You have heard me tell you, "I'm going away, but I'm coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I'm going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

But I'm doing what the Father has commanded me, to let the world know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us leave this place."

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vintner.

This is how my Father is glorified, when you produce a lot of fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

Just as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. So abide in my love.

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

"You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. I have appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

The person who hates me also hates my Father.

If I hadn't done among them the actions that no one else did, they wouldn't have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father he will testify on my behalf.