And you will say to Pharaoh: This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son.
John 8:41 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You’re doing what your father does.’ ‘We weren’t born of sexual immorality,’ they said. ‘We have one Father #– #God.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You are doing the works of your [own] father. They said to Him, We are not illegitimate children and born out of fornication; we have one Father, even God. American Standard Version (1901) Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. Common English Bible You are doing your father’s works.” They said, “Our ancestry isn’t in question! The only Father we have is God!” Catholic Public Domain Version You do the works of your father." Therefore, they said to him: "We were not born out of fornication. We have one father: God." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God. |
And you will say to Pharaoh: This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son.
Yet you are our Father, even though Abraham does not know us and Israel doesn’t recognise us. You, Lord, are our Father; your name is Our Redeemer from Ancient Times.
Yet Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we all are the work of your hands.
I thought, ‘How I long to make you my sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations.’ I thought, ‘You will call me “My Father” and never turn away from me.’
Isn’t Ephraim a precious son to me, a delightful child? Whenever I speak against him, I certainly still think about him. Therefore, my inner being yearns for him; I will truly have compassion on him. This is the Lord’s declaration.
When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him: Go and marry a woman of promiscuity, and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the Lord.
‘A son honours his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me? says the Lord of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.’ Yet you ask, ‘How have we despised your name? ’
Judah has acted treacherously, and a detestable act has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the Lord’s sanctuary, , which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. ,
I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father; , so then, you do what you have heard from your father.’
You are of your father the devil, and you want to carry out 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 tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
‘You are sons of the Lord your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head on behalf of the dead,
Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Isn’t he your Father and Creator? , Didn’t he make you and sustain you?
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.