¹¹ And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,

¹⁶ and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

¹³ to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

⁵ Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

⁶ In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.

²⁶ look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

³ `A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,' --

³⁰ for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;

³² `Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;

³ concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh,

⁴ who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

⁵ and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.

¹ See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

¹⁸ that thou mayest not appear to men fasting, but to thy Father who `is' in secret, and thy Father, who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.

¹⁴ `For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you -- your Father who `is' in the heavens;

⁶ `But thou, when thou mayest pray, go into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who `is' in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.

⁶ A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I `am' a father, where `is' Mine honour? And if I `am' a master, where `is' My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: `In what have we despised Thy name?'

¹⁶ For Thou `art' our Father, For Abraham hath not known us, And Israel doth not acknowledge us, Thou, O Jehovah, `art' our Father, Our redeemer from the age, `is' Thy name.

²¹ And I proclaim there a fast, by the river Ahava, to afflict ourselves before our God, to seek from Him a right way for us, and for our infants, and for all our substance,

²² for I was ashamed to ask from the king a force and horsemen to help us because of the enemy in the way, for we spake to the king, saying, `The hand of our God `is' upon all seeking Him for good, and His strength and His wrath `is' upon all forsaking Him.'

²³ And we fast, and seek from our God for this, and He is entreated of us.

⁴ that thy kindness may be in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret Himself shall reward thee manifestly.

⁸ be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him;

⁹ thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who `art' in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.

³² for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

¹⁷ Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'

¹⁸ and I will be to you for a Father, and ye -- ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'

² to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

⁹ With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way -- they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim -- My first-born `is' he.