Matthew 23:9

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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

For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’ ”

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me.” ’

The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.

But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

If you then, being 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!

They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’ ”

The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

Now Elisha became sick with the illness of which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.