'Father's' in the Bible

"Your father made our burdens unbearable. Therefore lighten your father's requirements and his heavy burdens that he placed on us, and we'll serve you."

"This is what you should tell these people who asked you "Your father made our burden heavy, but you must make it lighter for us!'" the young men who grew up with Rehoboam replied. "Tell them, "My little finger will be thicker than my father's whole body!

select the best and most qualified of your master's sons, set him in place on his father's throne, and fight for your master's dynasty!"

because he completely adopted his father's lifestyle, serving the same idols his father had served and worshipped.

The people of the land took Josiah's son Jehoahaz, anointed him, and installed him as king in his father's place. Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became king. He reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal. She was the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Here is a record of the descendants of Reuben, Israel's firstborn. (He was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's marriage bed, his birthright was transferred to the descendants of Israel's son Joseph. As a result, Reuben is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright.

They were all under their father's supervision regarding music in the Temple of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of the Temple of God.

Nevertheless, the LORD God of Israel chose me from my entire ancestral household to be king over Israel forever, since he had chosen Judah as Commander-in-Chief. In my ancestor Judah's household, from my father's household, and from among my father's sons it pleased him to make me king over all of Israel.

"Your father made our burdens unbearable. Therefore you must lighten your father's requirements and his heavy burden that he placed on us, and we'll serve you."

"This is what you should tell the people who asked you: "Your father made our burden heavy, but you must make it lighter for us!'" the young men who had grown up with Rehoboam replied. "Tell them "My little finger will be thicker than my father's whole body!

But after Jehoram had assumed the throne and consolidated his rule over his father's kingdom, he executed all of his brothers, along with some of the rulers of Israel.

"This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: "You haven't lived like your father Jehoshaphat and like King Asa of Judah. Instead, you have lived like the kings of Israel by causing Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit cultic sexual immorality just like Ahab's dynasty did! And you've killed your brothers who were better than you your own father's dynasty!

After this, the people of the land installed Josiah's son Jehoahaz in Jerusalem as king to take his father's place.

"I confess the sins that we Israelis have committed against you. Both I and my father's house have sinned. We have abandoned you by not keeping your commands, your ceremonies, and your judgments that you proscribed to your servant Moses.

Indeed, if you are silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. Who knows but that you were brought to the kingdom for a time like this?"

Listen, daughter! Consider and pay attention. Forget your people and your father's house,

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not let go of your mother's teaching.

Listen, children, to your father's instruction, and pay attention in order to gain understanding.

Keep your father's commands, my son, and never forsake your mother's rules,

A wise son heeds a father's correction, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.

A fool rejects his father's instructions, but anyone who respects reproof acts sensibly.

A father's ruin is a foolish son, and a wife's quarreling is like dripping water that never stops.

A house and self-sufficiency are a father's inheritance, but from the LORD comes an insightful wife.

Never abandon your friend nor your father's friend, and don't go to your brother's house in times of trouble. A neighbor who is near is better than a brother who lives far away.

"For a man will grab his brother in his own father's house, and say, "You have a cloak, so you be our leader, and this heap of ruins will be under your rule!'

I'll set him like a peg into a secure place; he will become a throne of honor to his father's house.

The entire reputation of his father's house will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots all its smaller vessels, from the cups to all the jars.

Indeed, even your brothers and your father's family conspire against you. Even they cry out after you loudly. Don't believe them, even though they speak friendly words to you.

Look! Every living soul belongs to me the father's as well as the son's. So pay attention! The person who keeps on sinning is going to die."

"Now suppose that he produced a son who practiced all of his father's sins, but then that son began to fear me and stopped doing all of these things.

doesn't refuse to help the afflicted, or refuses to loan with usury or exact interest, but instead follows my ordinances and lives his life consistent with my statutes. He won't die because of his father's sin, will he? No! He'll certainly live.

"Yet you keep asking, "Why wouldn't the son bear the punishment of his father's sin?' Because the son has done what was lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes and obeyed them, he's certainly going to live.

The soul who sins dies. The son won't bear the punishment of his father's sin and the father won't bear the punishment of his son's sin. The righteous deeds of that righteous person will be attributed to him, while the wicked deeds of the wicked person will be charged against him.

One of you commits detestable practices with his neighbor's wife. Another sexually defiles his daughter-in-law. Another humiliates his sister, his own father's daughter.

"Two sparrows are sold for a penny, aren't they? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's permission.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in their Father's kingdom. Let the person who has ears listen!"

The Son of Man is going to come with his angels in his Father's glory, and then he will repay everyone according to what he has done.

Which of the two did the father's will?" They answered, "The first one."

I tell all of you I will never again drink the product of the vine until that day when I drink it with you once again in my Father's kingdom."

If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes with the holy angels in his Father's glory."

He asked them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I had to be in my Father's house?"

"Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have more food than they can eat, and here I am starving to death!

"Now the father's older son was in the field. As he was coming back to the house, he heard music and dancing.

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

The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son, who is full of grace and truth.

No one has ever seen God. The unique God, who is close to the Father's side, has revealed him.

Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. Yet if another man comes in his own name, you will accept him.

This is my Father's will: That everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

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

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

Jesus answered them, "I have told you, but you don't believe it. The actions that I do in my Father's name testify on my behalf,

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

If I'm not doing my Father's actions, don't believe me.

There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?

If you keep my commandments, you'll abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

"At this time Moses was born. He was beautiful in the sight of God, and for three months he was cared for in his father's house.

Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too may live an entirely new life.

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, and of a kind that is not found even among the gentiles. A man is actually living with his father's wife!

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus the Messiah, the Father's Son, in truth and love.

Then I looked, and there was the lamb, standing on Mount Zion! With him were 144,000 people who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.