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Lexicon :: Strong's G3962 - patēr

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πατήρ
Transliteration
patēr (Key)
Pronunciation
pat-ayr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a root word
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TDNT Reference: 5:945,805

Strong’s Definitions

†πατήρ patḗr, pat-ayr'; apparently a primary word; a "father" (literally or figuratively, near or more remote):—father, parent.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 419x

The KJV translates Strong's G3962 in the following manner: Father (268x), father (150x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 419x
The KJV translates Strong's G3962 in the following manner: Father (268x), father (150x).

  1. generator or male ancestor

    1. either the nearest ancestor: father of the corporeal nature, natural fathers, both parents

    2. a more remote ancestor, the founder of a family or tribe, progenitor of a people, forefather: so Abraham is called, Jacob and David

      1. fathers i.e. ancestors, forefathers, founders of a nation

    3. one advanced in years, a senior

  2. metaph.

    1. the originator and transmitter of anything

      1. the authors of a family or society of persons animated by the same spirit as himself

      2. one who has infused his own spirit into others, who actuates and governs their minds

    2. one who stands in a father's place and looks after another in a paternal way

    3. a title of honour

      1. teachers, as those to whom pupils trace back the knowledge and training they have received

      2. the members of the Sanhedrin, whose prerogative it was by virtue of the wisdom and experience in which they excelled, to take charge of the interests of others

  3. God is called the Father

    1. of the stars, the heavenly luminaries, because he is their creator, upholder, ruler

    2. of all rational and intelligent beings, whether angels or men, because he is their creator, preserver, guardian and protector

      1. of spiritual beings and of all men

    3. of Christians, as those who through Christ have been exalted to a specially close and intimate relationship with God, and who no longer dread him as a stern judge of sinners, but revere him as their reconciled and loving Father

    4. the Father of Jesus Christ, as one whom God has united to himself in the closest bond of love and intimacy, made acquainted with his purposes, appointed to explain and carry out among men the plan of salvation, and made to share also in his own divine nature

      1. by Jesus Christ himself

      2. by the apostles

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†πατήρ patḗr, pat-ayr'; apparently a primary word; a "father" (literally or figuratively, near or more remote):—father, parent.
STRONGS G3962:
πατήρ (from the root, pa; literally, nourisher, protector, upholder; (Curtius, § 348)), πατρός, πατρί, πατέρα, vocative πάτερ (for which the nominative ὁ πατήρ is five times used, and (anarthrous) πατήρ in John 17:21 T Tr WH, 24 and 25 L T Tr WH; cf. B. § 129, 5; Winers Grammar, § 29, 2; WH's Appendix, p. 158), plural πατέρες, πατέρων, πατρασι (Hebrews 1:1), πατέρας, ὁ (from Homer down), the Sept. for אָב, a father;
1. properly, equivalent to generator or male ancestor, and either
a. the nearest ancestor: Matthew 2:22; Matthew 4:21; Matthew 8:21; Luke 1:17; John 4:53; Acts 7:14; 1 Corinthians 5:1, etc.; οἱ πατέρες τῆς σαρκός, fathers of the corporeal nature, natural fathers (opposed to ὁ πατήρ τῶν πνευμάτων), Hebrews 12:9; plural of both parents, Hebrews 11:23 (not infrequent in secular auth, cf. Delitzsch at the passage); or
b. a more remote ancestor, the founder of a race or tribe, progenitor of a people, forefather: so Abraham is called, Matthew 3:9; Luke 1:73; Luke 16:24; John 8:39, 53; Acts 7:2; Romans 4:1 Rec., Romans 4:17f, etc.; Isaac, Romans 9:10; Jacob, John 4:12; David, Mark 11:10; Luke 1:32; plural, fathers i. e. ancestor's, forefathers, Matthew 23:30, 32; Luke 6:23, 26; Luke 11:47; John 4:20; John 6:31; Acts 3:13, 25; 1 Corinthians 10:1, etc., and often in Greek writings from Homer down; so too אָבות, 1 Kings 8:21; Psalm 21:5 (Ps. 22:5), etc.; in the stricter sense of the founders of a race, John 7:22; Romans 9:5; Romans 11:28.
c. equivalent to one advanced in years, a senior: 1 John 2:13f.
2. metaphorically;
a. the originator and transmitter of anything: πατήρ περιτομῆς, Romans 4:12; the author of a family or society of persons animated by the same spirit as himself: so πατήρ πάντων τῶν πιστευόντων, Romans 4:11, cf. Romans 4:12, 16 (1 Macc. 2:54); one who has infused his own spirit into others, who actuates and governs their minds, John 8:38, 41f, 44; the phrase ἐκ πατρός τίνος εἶναι is used of one who shows himself as like another in spirit and purpose as though he had inherited his nature from him, John 8:44.
b. one who stands in a father's place, and looks after another in paternal way: 1 Corinthians 4:15.
c. a title of honor (cf. Sophocles, Lexicon, under the word), applied to
α. teachers, as those to whom pupils trace back the knowledge and training they have received: Matthew 23:9 (of prophets, 2 Kings 2:12; 2 Kings 6:21).
β. the members of the Sanhedrin, whose prerogative it was, by virtue of the wisdom and experience in which they excelled, to take charge of the interests of others: Acts 7:2; Acts 22:1; cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus i., p. 7{a}.
3. God is called the Father,
a. τῶν φώτων (A. V. of lights i. e.) of the stars, the heavenly luminaries, because he is their creator, upholder, ruler, James 1:17.
b. of all rational and intelligent beings, whether angels or men, because he is their creator, preserver, guardian and protector: Ephesians 3:14f G L T Tr WH; τῶν πνευμάτων, of spiritual beings, Hebrews 12:9; and, for the same reason, of all men (πατήρ τοῦ παντός ἀνθρώπων γένους, Josephus, Antiquities 4, 8, 24): so in the Synoptic Gospels, especially Matthew, Matthew 6:4, 8, 15; Matthew 24:36; Luke 6:36; Luke 11:2; Luke 12:30, 32; John 4:21, 23; James 3:9; ὁ πατήρ ὁ ἐν (τοῖς) οὐρανοῖς, the Father in heaven, Matthew 5:16, 45, 48; Matthew 6:1, 9; Matthew 7:11, 21; Matthew 18:14; Mark 11:25, 26 R G L; Luke 11:13 (ἐξ οὐρανοῦ; cf. Buttmann, § 151, 2{a}; Winer's Grammar, § 66, 6); ὁ πατήρ ὁ οὐρανοῖς, the heavenly Father, Matthew 6:14, 26, 32; Matthew 15:13.
c. of Christians, as those who through Christ have been exalted to a specially close and intimate relationship with God, and who no longer dread him as the stern judge of sinners, but revere him as their reconciled and loving Father. This conception, common in the N. T. Epistles, shines forth with especial brightness in Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6; in John's use of the term it seems to include the additional idea of one who by the power of his Spirit, operative in the gospel, has begotten them anew to a life of holiness (see γεννάω, 2 d.): absolutely, 2 Corinthians 6:18; Ephesians 2:18; 1 John 2:1, 14(1 John 2:13),1 John 2:16; 1 John 3:1; Θεός καί πατήρ πάντων, of all Christians, Ephesians 4:6; with the addition of a genitive of quality (Winer's Grammar, § 34, 3 b.; § 132, 10), ὁ πατήρ τῶν οἰκτίρμων, 2 Corinthians 1:3; τῆς δόξης, Ephesians 1:17; on the phrases ὁ Θεός καί πατήρ ἡμῶν, Θεός πατήρ, etc., see Θεός, 3, p. 288{a}.
d. the Father of Jesus Christ, as one whom God has united to himself in the closest bond of love and intimacy, made acquainted with his purposes, appointed to explain and carry out among men the plan of salvation, and (as appears from the teaching of John) made to share also in his own divine nature; he is so called,
α. by Jesus himself: simply ὁ πατήρ (opposed to ὁ υἱός), Matthew 11:25-27; Luke 10:21; John 5:20-23, 26, 36; John 10:15, 30, etc.; ὁ πατήρ μου, Matthew 11:27; Matthew 25:34; Matthew 26:53; Luke 10:22; John 5:17; John 8:19, 49; John 10:18, 32, and often in John's Gospel; Revelation 2:28 (Revelation 2:27); Rev 3:5,21; with ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς added, Matthew 7:11, 21, 32; Matthew 12:50; Matthew 16:17; Matthew 18:10, 19; ὁ οὐράνιος, Matthew 15:13; ὁ ἐπουράνιος, Matthew 18:35 Rec.
β. by the apostles: Romans 15:6; 2 Corinthians 1:3; 2 Corinthians 11:31; Ephesians 1:3; Ephesians 3:14 Rec.: Colossians 1:3; Hebrews 1:5; 1 Peter 1:3; Revelation 1:6. See (Tholuck (Bergrede Christi) on Matthew 6:9; Weiss, Biblical Theol. d. N. T., Index under Vater; C. Wittichen, Die Idee Gottes als d. Vaters (Göttingen, 1865); Westcott, Epistles of St. John, pp. 27-34, and) below in υἱός and τέκνον.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Kings
8:21
2 Kings
2:12; 6:21
Psalms
21:5; 22:5
Matthew
2:22; 3:9; 4:21; 5:16; 5:45; 5:48; 6:1; 6:4; 6:8; 6:9; 6:9; 6:14; 6:15; 6:26; 6:32; 7:11; 7:11; 7:21; 7:21; 8:21; 11:25; 11:26; 11:27; 11:27; 12:50; 15:13; 15:13; 16:17; 18:10; 18:14; 18:19; 18:35; 23:9; 23:30; 23:32; 24:36; 25:34; 26:53
Mark
11:10; 11:25; 11:26
Luke
1:17; 1:32; 1:73; 6:23; 6:26; 6:36; 10:21; 10:22; 11:2; 11:13; 11:47; 12:30; 12:32; 16:24
John
4:12; 4:20; 4:21; 4:23; 4:53; 5:17; 5:20; 5:21; 5:22; 5:23; 5:26; 5:36; 6:31; 7:22; 8:19; 8:38; 8:39; 8:41; 8:44; 8:44; 8:49; 8:53; 10:15; 10:18; 10:30; 10:32; 17:21
Acts
3:13; 3:25; 7:2; 7:2; 7:14; 22:1
Romans
4:1; 4:11; 4:12; 4:12; 4:16; 4:17; 8:15; 9:5; 9:10; 11:28; 15:6
1 Corinthians
4:15; 5:1; 10:1
2 Corinthians
1:3; 1:3; 6:18; 11:31
Galatians
4:6
Ephesians
1:3; 1:17; 2:18; 3:14; 3:14; 4:6
Colossians
1:3
Hebrews
1:1; 1:5; 11:23; 12:9; 12:9
James
1:17; 3:9
1 Peter
1:3
1 John
2:1; 2:13; 2:13; 2:14; 2:16; 3:1
Revelation
1:6; 2:27; 2:28; 3:5; 3:21

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3962 matches the Greek πατήρ (patēr),
which occurs 418 times in 372 verses in the TR Greek.

Page 7 / 8 (Eph 1:3–2Pe 3:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:3 - Blessed be the God and Father G3962 of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:17 - That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father G3962 of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:18 - For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. G3962

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 3:14 - For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father G3962 of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:6 - One God and Father G3962 of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:20 - Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father G3962 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:31 - For this cause shall a man leave his father G3962 and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 6:2 - Honour thy father G3962 and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 6:4 - And, ye fathers, G3962 provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 6:23 - Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father G3962 and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:2 - Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, G3962 and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:11 - And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. G3962

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:22 - But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, G3962 he hath served with me in the gospel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 4:20 - Now unto God and our Father G3962 be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:2 - To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father G3962 and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:3 - We give thanks to God and the Father G3962 of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:12 - Giving thanks unto the Father, G3962 which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:2 - That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, G3962 and of Christ;

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:17 - And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father G3962 by him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:21 - Fathers, G3962 provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:1 - Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father G3962 and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, G3962 and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 1:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:3 - Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; G3962

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:11 - As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father G3962 doth his children,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 3:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:11 - Now God himself and our Father, G3962 and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Th 3:13 - To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, G3962 at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Th 1:1 - Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father G3962 and the Lord Jesus Christ:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Th 1:2 - Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father G3962 and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Th 2:16 - Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, G3962 which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 1:2 - Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father G3962 and Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:1 - Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; G3962 and the younger men as brethren;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 1:2 - To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father G3962 and Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Tit 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:4 - To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father G3962 and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phm 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPhm 1:3 - Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father G3962 and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:1 - God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers G3962 by the prophets,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:5 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, G3962 and he shall be to me a Son?

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:9 - When your fathers G3962 tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 7:10 - For he was yet in the loins of his father, G3962 when Melchisedec met him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:9 - Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers G3962 in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:23 - By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, G3962 because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:7 - If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father G3962 chasteneth not?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:9 - Furthermore we have had fathers G3962 of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father G3962 of spirits, and live?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:17 - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father G3962 of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:27 - Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father G3962 is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:21 - Was not Abraham our father G3962 justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:9 - Therewith bless we God, even the Father; G3962 and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:2 - Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, G3962 through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 1:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:3 - Blessed be the God and Father G3962 of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 1:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:17 - And if ye call on the Father, G3962 who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 1:17 - For he received from God the Father G3962 honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:4 - And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers G3962 fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

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