God the Father is the revealed title for the God of all creation (Genesis 1:1), who adopted Israel as his chosen people (Exodus 4:22), and who sent his Son to die for us (John 10:18). The Father is considered the first person in the trinity.
Revealed throughout all of scripture, God the Father is most commonly referred to as LORD in the Old Testament, and as Heavenly Father in the New Testament.
Why do we call God the Father?
The quick answer to why we call God the Father is that he reveals himself throughout scripture to be the father of his people. He shows both willingness to love and bless them, but also to discipline them for their sins.
Through the revelation of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we see God's eternal fatherhood. God is the Father of Jesus, begotten not created, and the Son shares in his Father's divine nature.
To be clear: we believe that there is one God and three distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This view is evidenced throughout scripture and formalised in the doctrine of trinity.
You can read more about the importance of 'Father' in my article about God the Father and the importance of masculine pronouns.
Related Terms
There are a variety of Hebrew and Greek words that used for father, here is a complete list of the words for fathers and fatherhood:
ab - Father
abba - Father
patér - Father
Usage
There are many passages that deal with God and his caring, nurturing, fatherly attributes. His love is sometimes compared to being like a father, because our God cares deeply about us.
However, the verses where God is explicitly referenced to as "Father" are of the greatest importance in demonstrating that God can and should be called Father. Overall there are 17 references to God with the title of Father in the Old Testament and 258 references in the New Testament.
Old Testament
Below are all 16 of the Old Testament verses where the title Father describes God:
Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
Deuteronomy 32:6 ESV
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men
2 Samuel 7:14 ESV
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you
1 Chronicles 17:13 ESV
He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.
1 Chronicles 22:10 ESV
He said to me, ‘It is Solomon your son who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
1 Chronicles 28:6 ESV
Therefore David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: “Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
1 Chronicles 29:10 ESV
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 68:5 ESV
He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’
Psalm 89:26 ESV
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6 ESV
For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our Father
Isaiah 63:16 ESV
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Isaiah 64:8 ESV
Have you not just now called to me, ‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—
Jeremiah 3:4 ESV
“‘I said, How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
Jeremiah 3:19 ESV
With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Jeremiah 31:9 ESV
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
Malachi 1:6 ESV
Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Malachi 2:10 ESV
New Testament
Below are all 230 of the New Testament verses where the title Father describes God:
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 5:16 ESV
so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 5:45 ESV
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 5:48 ESV
Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:1 ESV
so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 6:4 ESV
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 6:6 ESV
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Matthew 6:8 ESV
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name...
Matthew 6:9 ESV
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you...
Matthew 6:14 ESV
...but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 6:15 ESV
...that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 6:18 ESV
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
Matthew 6:26 ESV
For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
Matthew 6:32 ESV
If you then, who are 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!
Matthew 7:11 ESV
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:21 ESV
For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Matthew 10:20 ESV
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
Matthew 10:29 ESV
So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven...
Matthew 10:32 ESV
...but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 10:33 ESV
At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;
Matthew 11:25 ESV
yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
Matthew 11:26 ESV
All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Matthew 11:27 ESV
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 12:50 ESV
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
Matthew 13:43 ESV
He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
Matthew 15:13 ESV
And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven...
Matthew 16:17 ESV
For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
Matthew 16:27 ESV
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven...
Matthew 18:10 ESV
So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
Matthew 18:14 ESV
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
Matthew 18:19 ESV
So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”
Matthew 18:35 ESV
He said to them, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
Matthew 20:23 ESV
And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
Matthew 23:9 ESV
But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Matthew 24:36 ESV
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Matthew 25:34 ESV
I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.”
Matthew 26:29 ESV
And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
Matthew 26:39 ESV
Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”
Matthew 26:42 ESV
Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?
Matthew 26:53 ESV
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
Matthew 28:19 ESV
For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Mark 8:38 ESV
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Mark 11:25 ESV
But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Mark 13:32 ESV
And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
Mark 14:36 ESV
And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?”
Luke 2:49 ESV
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
Luke 6:36 ESV
For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
Luke 9:26 ESV
In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
Luke 10:21 ESV
All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Luke 10:22 ESV
And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come...
Luke 11:2 ESV
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!
Luke 11:13 ESV
For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
Luke 12:30 ESV
Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Luke 12:32 ESV
...and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom...
Luke 22:29 ESV
...saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
Luke 22:42 ESV
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Luke 23:34 ESV
Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
Luke 23:46 ESV
And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.
Luke 24:49 ESV
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14 ESV
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
John 1:18 ESV
And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.”
John 2:16
The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.
John 3:35 ESV
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
John 4:21 ESV
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
John 4:23 ESV
But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”
John 5:17 ESV
This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
John 5:18 ESV
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
John 5:19 ESV
For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.
John 5:20 ESV
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
John 5:21 ESV
For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
John 5:22 ESV
that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
John 5:23 ESV
For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.
John 5:26 ESV
But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
John 5:36 ESV
And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen
John 5:37 ESV
I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
John 5:43 ESV
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
John 5:45 ESV
Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
John 6:27 ESV
Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
John 6:32 ESV
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
John 6:37 ESV
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 6:40 ESV
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:44 ESV
It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—
John 6:45 ESV
not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.
John 6:46 ESV
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.
John 6:57 ESV
And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”
John 6:65 ESV
Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
John 8:16 ESV
I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
John 8:18 ESV
They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
John 8:19 ESV
They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.
John 8:27 ESV
So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
John 8:28 ESV
I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.
John 8:38 ESV
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
John 8:42 ESV
Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
John 8:49 ESV
Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
John 8:54 ESV
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10:15 ESV
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.
John 10:17 ESV
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.
John 10:18 ESV
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me,
John 10:25 ESV
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
John 10:29 ESV
I and the Father are one.
John 10:30 ESV
Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”
John 10:32 ESV
do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
John 10:36 ESV
If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;
John 10:37 ESV
...but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.
John 10:38 ESV
So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
John 11:41 ESV
If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
John 12:26 ESV
“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
John 12:27 ESV
Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
John 12:28 ESV
For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.
John 12:49 ESV
And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”
John 12:50 ESV
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
John 13:1 ESV
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
John 13:3 ESV
In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
John 14:2 ESV
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6 ESV
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.
John 14:7 ESV
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
John 14:8 ESV
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
John 14:9 ESV
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
John 14:10 ESV
Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
John 14:11 ESV
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
John 14:12 ESV
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:13 ESV
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever
John 14:16 ESV
In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
John 14:20 ESV
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
John 14:21 ESV
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
John 14:23 ESV
Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.
John 14:24 ESV
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
John 14:26 ESV
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
John 14:28 ESV
but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
John 14:31 ESV
I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
John 15:1 ESV
By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
John 15:8 ESV
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.
John 15:9 ESV
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
John 15:10 ESV
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
John 15:15 ESV
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
John 15:16 ESV
Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
John 15:23 ESV
If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
John 15:24 ESV
But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
John 15:26 ESV
And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
John 16:3 ESV
concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer;
John 16:10 ESV
All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
John 16:15 ESV
So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”
John 16:17 ESV
In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
John 16:23 ESV
I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.
John 16:25 ESV
In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;
John 16:26 ESV
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
John 16:27 ESV
I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
John 16:28 ESV
Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
John 16:32 ESV
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you
John 17:1 ESV
And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
John 17:5 ESV
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
John 17:11 ESV
that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
John 17:21 ESV
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
John 17:24 ESV
O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
John 17:25 ESV
So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?”
John 18:11 ESV
Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
John 20:17 ESV
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
John 20:21 ESV
And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me;
Acts 1:4 ESV
He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.
Acts 1:7 ESV
Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
Acts 2:33 ESV
To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:7 ESV
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:4 ESV
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Romans 8:15 ESV
...that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:6 ESV
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:3 ESV
yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV
Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.
1 Corinthians 15:24 ESV
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:2 ESV
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort...
2 Corinthians 1:3 ESV
and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
2 Corinthians 6:18 ESV
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
2 Corinthians 11:31 ESV
Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
Galatians 1:1 ESV
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
Galatians 1:3 ESV
...who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father...
Galatians 1:4 ESV
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
Galatians 4:6 ESV
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:2 ESV
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places...
Ephesians 1:3 ESV
...that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him...
Ephesians 1:17 ESV
For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Ephesians 2:18 ESV
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father...
Ephesians 3:14 ESV
one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Ephesians 4:6 ESV
...giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Ephesians 5:20 ESV
Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 6:23 ESV
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:2 ESV
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:11 ESV
To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Philippians 4:20 ESV
To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
Colossians 1:2 ESV
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you...
Colossians 1:3 ESV
...giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
Colossians 1:12 ESV
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:17 ESV
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.
1 Thessalonians 1:1 ESV
...remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV
Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you...
1 Thessalonians 3:11 ESV
...so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
1 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Thessalonians 1:1 ESV
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1:2 ESV
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace...
2 Thessalonians 2:16 ESV
To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Timothy 1:2 ESV
To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Timothy 1:2 ESV
To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
Titus 1:4 ESV
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philemon 1:3 ESV
For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”?
Hebrews 1:5 ESV
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
Hebrews 12:9 ESV
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
James 1:17 ESV
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:27 ESV
With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.
James 3:9 ESV
...according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
1 Peter 1:2 ESV
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead....
1 Peter 1:3 ESV
And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile
1 Peter 1:17 ESV
For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”
2 Peter 1:17 ESV
...the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—
1 John 1:2 ESV
that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:3 ESV
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
1 John 2:1 ESV
I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father.
1 John 2:13 ESV
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:15 ESV
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
1 John 2:16 ESV
Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 2:22 ESV
No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
1 John 2:23 ESV
Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.
1 John 2:24 ESV
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:1 ESV
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
1 John 4:14 ESV
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
1 John 5:1 ESV
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.
2 John 1:3 ESV
I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.
2 John 1:4 ESV
Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
2 John 1:9 ESV
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
Jude 1:1 ESV
...and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 1:6 ESV
...and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.
Revelation 2:27 ESV
The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
Revelation 3:5 ESV
The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 3:21 ESV
Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
Revelation 14:1 ESV
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