1206 verses about Father

You did choose me before my kindred to be king of your people, And to do judgement for your sons and daughters.

And so will my works be acceptible, And I will judge your people righteously, And I will be worthy of my father’s throne.

Wisdom guarded to the end the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, And delivered him out of his own transgression,

For these, as a father, admonishing them, you did prove; But those, as a stern king, condemning them, you did search out.

With how great carefulness did you judge your sons, To whose fathers you gave oaths and covenants of good promises!

And your providence, O Father, guideth it along, Because even in the sea you gave a way, And in the waves a sure path,

For a father worn with untimely grief, Making an image of the child quickly taken away, Now honored him as a god which was then a dead man, And delivered to those that were under him mysteries and solemn rites.

For holy children of good men offered sacrifice in secret, And with one consent they took upon themselves the covenant of the divine law, That they would partake alike in the same good things and the same perils; The fathers already leading the sacred songs of praise.

For upon his long high-priestly robe was the whole world, And the glories of the fathers were upon the graving of the four rows of precious stones, And your majesty was upon the diadem of his head.

Hear me your father, O my children, And do thereafter, that you⌃ may be saved.

For the Lord has given the father glory as touching the children, And has confirmed the judgement of the mother as touching the sons.

He that honors his father will make atonement for sins:

And he that gives glory to his mother is as one that lays up treasure.

Whoso honors his father will have joy of his children; And in the day of his prayer he will be heard.

He that gives glory to his father will have length of days; And he that hearkens to the Lord will bring rest to his mother,

In deed and word honor your father, That a blessing may come upon you from him.

For the blessing of the father establishes the houses of children; But the curse of the mother roots out the foundations.

Glorify not yourself in the dishonor of your father; For your father’s dishonor is no glory to you.

For the glory of a man is from the honor of his father; And a mother in dishonor is a reproach to her children.

My son, help your father in his old age; And grieve him not as long as he lives.

For the relieving of your father will not be forgotten: And instead of sins it will be added to build you up.

He that forsakes his father is as a blasphemer; And he that provoketh his mother is cursed of the Lord.

Be as a father to the fatherless, And instead of a husband to their mother: So will you be as a son of the Most High, And he will love you more than your mother does.

Give glory to your father with your whole heart; And forget not the pangs of your mother.

A father has shame in having begotten an uninstructed son; And a foolish daughter is born to his loss.

A prudent daughter will inherit a husband of her own; And she that brings shame is the grief of her father.

She that is bold brings shame upon father and husband; And she will be despised of them both.

O Lord, Father and Master of my life, Abandon me not to their counsel: Suffer me not to fall by them.

O Lord, Father and God of my life, Give me not a proud look,

Remember your father and your mother, For you sit in the midst of great men; That you be not forgetful before them, And become a fool by your custom; So will you wish that you had not been born, And curse the day of your nativity.

He that loves his son will continue to lay stripes upon him, That he may have joy of him in the end.

He that chastises his son shall have profit of him, And shall glory of him among his acquaintance.

His father dieth, and is as though he had not died; For he has left one behind him like himself.

He that makes too much of his son shall bind up his wounds; And his heart will be troubled at every cry.

For better it is that your children should supplicate you, Than that you should look to the hand of your sons.

As one that kills the son before his father’s eyes Is he that brings a sacrifice from the goods of the poor.

He will in no wise despise the supplication of the fatherless; Nor the widow, when she pours out her tale.

Children will complain of an ungodly father, Because they shall be reproached for his sake.

Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother: And of a lie before a prince and a mighty man;

A daughter is a secret cause of wakefulness to a father; And the care for her puts away sleep; In her youth, lest she pass the flower of her age; And when she is married, lest she should be hated:

Let us now praise famous men, And our fathers that became the father of us.

Abraham was a great father of a multitude of nations; And there was none found like him in glory;

In Isaac also did he establish likewise, for Abraham his father’s sake, The blessing of all men, and the covenant:

After him rose up a son, a man of understanding; And for his sake he lived at large.

Who was recorded for reproofs in their seasons, To pacify anger, before it brake forth into wrath; To turn the heart of the father to the son, And to restore the tribes of Jacob.

I called upon the Lord, the Father of my Lord, That he would not forsake me in the days of affliction, In the time when there was no help against the proud.

and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers:

Thus says the Lord, Bow your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon, and remain in the land that I gave to your fathers.

Remember not the iniquities of our fathers: but remember your power and your name now at this time.

They can show no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.

and cause not your mercy to depart from us, for the sake of Abraham that is beloved of you, and for the sake of Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one;

Blessed are you, O Lord, you God of our fathers: and to be praised and exalted above all forever.

Blessed are you in the firmament of heaven: and to be praised and glorified forever.

and she came with her father and mother, her children, and all her kindred.

And call to remembrance the deeds of our fathers which they did in their generations; and receive great glory and an everlasting name.

Phinehas our father, for that he was zealous exceedingly, obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.

And, behold, Simon your brother, I know that he is a man of counsel; give ear to him always: he shall be a father to you.

And he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.

We were willing to serve your father, and to walk after his words, and to follow his commandments;

King Demetrius to Lasthenes his father, greeting:

And Simon built a monument upon the sepulchre of his father and his kindred, and raised it aloft to the sight, with polished stone behind and before.

And he set up seven pyramids, one near another, for his father, and his mother, and his four kindred.

But we, having opportunity, hold fast the inheritance of our fathers.

And John went up from Gazara, and told Simon his father what Cendebaeus was doing.

And Simon called his two oldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them, I and my kindred and my father’s house have fought the battles of Israel from our youth, even to this day; and things have prospered in our hands, that we should deliver Israel oftentimes.

behold, they are written in the chronicles of his high priesthood, from the time that he was made high priest after his father.

who alone suppliest every need, who alone are righteous and almighty and eternal, you that save Israel out of all evil, who made the fathers your chosen, and did sanctify them:

But considering that my father also, at what time he led an army into the upper country, appointed his successor,

Seeing that our father passed to the gods having the wish that the subjects of his kingdom should be undisturbed and give themselves to the care of their own affairs,

Now information was given to Nicanor against one Razis, an elder of Jerusalem, as being a lover of his countrymen and a man of very good report, and one called Father of the Jews for his good will toward them.

2 Kings23:30; 2 Chronicles 36:1. And the people took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of Josias his father, when he was twenty and three years old.

And Joakim his son reigned in his stead: for when he was made king he was eighteen years old;

And the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he had compassion on them and on his dwelling place.

but to speak to our lord the king, to the intent that, if it be your pleasure, search may be made in the books of your fathers:

it makes the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich:

A man leaves his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and cleaves to his wife.

Wherefore a man loves his wife better than father or mother.

O LORD Almighty, that are in heaven, you God of our fathers, of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous seed;

I was small among my brothers, and youngest in my father’s house. I tended my father’s sheep.

He sent forth his angel and took me from my father’s sheep, and he anointed me with his anointing oil.

they invoked the Almighty Lord, and ceaselessly implored with tears their merciful God and Father, Ruler of all, Lord of every power,

look upon the seed of Abraham, upon the children of the sanctified Jacob, your sanctified inheritance, O Father, now being wrongfully destroyed as strangers in a strange land.

When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, you did look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own.

For this cause we severely threatened them; yet, with the clemency which we are wont to extend to all men, we at length permitted them to live. Finding that the God of heaven cast a shield of protection over the Jews so as to preserve them, and that he fought for them as a father always fights for his sons;

because the sins of their fathers are increased in them: for they have forgotten me, and have done sacrifice to strange gods.

Thus says the Lord Almighty, Have I not prayed you as a father his sons, as a mother her daughters, and a nurse her young babes,

that you⌃ would be my people, and I should be your God; that you⌃ would be my children, and I should be your father?

And now, O father, behold with glory; and see the people that come from the east:

As for me, O father, I call upon you for a witness over the mother of these children, because they would not keep my covenant,

Do right to the widow, judge the fatherless, give to the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,

whether fathers for children, or children for parents, or kindred for kindred, or kinsfolk for their next of kin, or friends for those who are most dear.

And he answered me, and said, Since you have found favor in my sight, I will show you this also: The day of judgement is a day of decision, and displays to all the seal of truth; even as now a father sends not his son, or a son his father, or a master his slave, or a friend him that is most dear, that in his stead he may be sick, or sleep, or eat, or be healed:

But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and observed not the statutes: and the fruit of the law did not perish, neither could it, for it was your;

And I nourished him with great travail.

Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, and they were delivered from thence,

For why, else, does our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain the whole race of the Shechemites, saying, Cursed be their anger.

My fathers shall receive me pure, not having quailed before your compulsion, though to death.

The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions,

For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the passions as with a jutting promontory.

You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by your deeds, have made credible the words of philosophy.