John 8:41

New Century Version

So you are doing the things your own father did.” But they said, “We are not like children who never knew who their father was. God is our Father; he is the only Father we have.”

Cross References

Isaiah 64:8

But Lord, you are our father. We are like clay, and you are the potter; your hands made us all.

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning and was against the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he shows what he is really like, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:38

I am telling you what my Father has shown me, but you do what your father has told you.”

Isaiah 63:16

You are our father. Abraham doesn’t know we are his children, and Israel doesn’t recognize us. Lord, you are our father. You are called “the one who has always saved us.”

Malachi 2:11

The people of Judah have broken their promises. They have done something God hates in Israel and Jerusalem: The people of Judah did not respect the Temple that the Lord loves, and the men of Judah married women who worship foreign gods.

Malachi 1:6

The Lord All-Powerful says, “A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master.” I am a father, so why don’t you honor me? I am a master, so why don’t you respect me? You priests do not respect me. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown you disrespect?’

Jeremiah 31:20

“You know that Israel is my dear son, The child I love. Yes, I often speak against Israel, but I still remember him. I love him very much, and I want to comfort him,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:19

“I, the Lord, said, ‘How happy I would be to treat you as my own children and give you a pleasant land, a land more beautiful than that of any other nation.’ I thought you would call me ‘My Father’ and not turn away from me.

Deuteronomy 32:6

This is not the way to repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people. He is your Father and Maker, who made you and formed you.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, do not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.

Exodus 4:22

Then say to the king, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord began speaking through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, and marry an unfaithful woman and have unfaithful children, because the people in this country have been completely unfaithful to the Lord.”

1 John 3:12

Do not be like Cain who belonged to the Evil One and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because the things Cain did were evil, and the things his brother did were good.