Bible verses by topic / Father
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.
Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.”
To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
A fool spurns a parent’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.
Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever.
Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
“Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.’
Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.
For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.
Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.
No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.