John 8:41

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You are indeed doing what your father does.” They said to him, “We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, God himself.”

Cross References

Exodus 4:22

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our father; our Redeemer from of old is your name.

Isaiah 64:8

Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Jeremiah 3:19

I thought how I would set you among my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful heritage of all the nations. And I thought you would call to me, “My Father,” and would not turn from following me.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he the child in whom I delight? As often as I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore I am deeply moved for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and have children of prostitution, for the land commits great prostitution by forsaking the Lord.”

Malachi 1:6

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

Malachi 2:11

Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

John 8:38

I declare what I have seen in the Father’s presence; as for you, you should do what you have heard from the Father.”

John 8:44

You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus repay the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father who created you, who made you and established you?

1 John 3:12

We must not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.