⁹ and ye may not call `any' your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

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?'

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;

⁹ Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

¹⁴ for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;

¹⁵ for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba -- Father.'

¹⁶ The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;

¹⁷ and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

²¹ Let me not, I pray you, accept the face of any, Nor unto man give flattering titles,

²² For I have not known to give flattering titles, In a little doth my Maker take me away.

¹⁵ for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;

¹¹ if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who `is' in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

¹² And Elisha is seeing, and he is crying, `My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and its horsemen;' and he hath not seen him again; and he taketh hold on his garments, and rendeth them into two pieces.

¹ An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

² aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;

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.'

¹ `Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;' --

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

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.

¹⁴ And Elisha hath been sick with his sickness in which he dieth, and come down unto him doth Joash king of Israel, and weepeth on his face, and saith, `My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and its horsemen.'

²¹ And the king of Israel saith unto Elisha, at his seeing them, `Do I smite -- do I smite -- my father?'