Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Doubtless thou art our father, though Avraham be ignorant of us, and Yisrael acknowledge us not: thou, O YY , art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
Yhudah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Yisrael and in Yerushalayim; for Yhudah hath profaned the holiness of YY which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange Elohim.
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith YY -TZvaot unto you, O kohanim, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Is Efrayim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith YY .
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
The beginning of the word of YY by Hoshea. And YY said to Hoshea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from YY .
Not as Kayin, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.