⁹ And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, `even' he who is in heaven.

⁶ A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

¹ Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and `such' we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

⁹ Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

¹⁵ For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

¹⁶ The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:

¹⁷ and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with `him', that we may be also glorified with `him'.

²¹ Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person; Neither will I give flattering titles unto any man.

²² For I know not to give flattering titles; `Else' would my Maker soon take me away.

¹⁵ For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet `have ye' not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.

¹¹ If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

¹² And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof! And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

¹ Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:

² the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

¹⁸ And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

¹ Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you.

³² For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

⁸ Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

⁹ After this manner therefore pray ye. Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

¹⁴ Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died: and Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over him, and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!

²¹ And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?