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Here, we've pulled together a collection of 40 Father's Day Bible verses about everything from fatherhood and being a godly husband to familial love. Find girl dad quotes , father-son quotes , as ...
31. "For the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights." — Proverbs 3:12 32. "I thank my God in all my remembrance of you."
“Honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as you love yourself.” — Matthew 19:19 ... RELATED: Beautiful Bible Verses About God's Love and Loving Others. Woman's Day/Getty Images.
This verse ends the baptism scene (verses 13-17). The voice is generally presumed to be that of God the Father. This is one of only two times in the Gospel of Matthew where God intervenes directly, the other being in Matthew 17:5. This is in contrast to most of the Old Testament where God's direct actions occur regularly. [4]
The formulation of this verse is known as the Imitatio Dei; a similar verse appears in Luke 6:36. The verse might be modeled on Leviticus 19:2, which says in the King James Version: "Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, You shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy." [2]
This verse extends the same observations to God's response to prayer. If a flawed human father looks out for his own child, then there is no reason to doubt that the perfectly good God will not have the best interest of his followers in heart. According to this verse, Jesus calls his hearers Greek: Πονηροὶ, poneroi, "evil".
6. “Iron sharpens iron, as one person sharpens another.” — Proverbs 27:17 7. “So now faith, hope and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” — 1 Corinthians 13:13
Augustine: "In the bosom of the Father, i. e. in the secret Presence1 of the Father: for God hath not the folde on the bosom, as we have; nor must be imagined to sit, as we do; nor is He bound with a girdle, so as to have a fold: but from the fact of our bosom being placed innermost, the secret Presence of the Father is called the bosom of the ...