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.
For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel,
And we should be disgracing our fathers if we did not obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide.
by which means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant.
How sweet is every form of death for the religion of our fathers! and he said to the tyrant,
But he cried out and said, Know you⌃ not, that the father of those who are dead, became the father of me also; and that the same mother bare me; and that I was brought up in the same tenets?
And I call upon the God of my fathers to be merciful to my race.
And another, Remember of what stock you⌃ are; and by the hand of our father Isaac endured to be slain for the sake of piety.
Now you are not ignorant of the charm of brotherhood, which the Divine and all wise Providence has imparted through fathers to children, and has engendered through the mother’s womb.
O in what way can I describe ethically the affections of parents toward their children, the resemblance of soul and of form engrafted into the small type of a child in a wonderful manner, especially through the greater sympathy of mothers with the feelings of those born of them!
O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection!
For whom also our father Abraham was forward to sacrifice Isaac our progenitor, and shuddered not at the sight of his own paternal hand descending down with the sword upon him.
And these my children, having arrived at maturity, their father died: blessed was he! for having sought out a life of fertility in children, he was not grieved with a period of loss of children.
But the children of Abraham, with their victorious mother, are assembled together to the choir of their father; having received pure and immortal souls from God.
Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.
Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.
Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father of Salmon.
Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.
Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.
Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa.
Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.
Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah.
Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah.
After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.
Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim. Eliakim became the father of Azor.
Azor became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Achim. Achim became the father of Eliud.
Eliud became the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan. Matthan became the father of Jacob.
Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.
Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
Give us today our daily bread.
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.












