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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:22 - but having heard that 'Archelaus reigns over Judaea, instead of Herod his father,' he was afraid to go there; and having been divinely instructed in a dream, he went away into the parts of Galilee,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 3:9 - And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:21 - And going on thence he saw other two brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending their trawl-nets, and he called them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:22 - and they, having left the ship and their father, immediately followed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:16 - Let your light thus shine before men, so that they may see your upright works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:45

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:45 - that ye may be the sons of your Father who is in the heavens; for he makes his sun rise on evil and good, and sends rain on just and unjust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:48

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:48 - Be *ye* therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:1 - Take heed not to do your alms before men to be seen of them, otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:4 - so that thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will render it to thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:6 - But *thou*, when thou prayest, enter into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will render it to thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:8 - Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg anything of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:9 - Thus therefore pray *ye*: Our Father who art in the heavens, let thy name be sanctified,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:14 - For if ye forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father also will forgive you yours,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:15 - but if ye do not forgive men their offences, neither will your Father forgive your offences.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:18 - so that thou mayest not appear fasting unto men, but to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who sees in secret shall render it to thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:26 - Look at the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into granaries, and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Are *ye* not much more excellent than they?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:32 - for all these things the nations seek after; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:11 - If therefore *ye*, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:21 - Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:21 - But another of his disciples said to him, Lord, suffer me first to go away and bury my father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:20 - For *ye* are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:21 - But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:29 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:32 - Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, *I* also will confess him before my Father who is in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:33 - But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will *I* also deny before my Father who is in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:35 - For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:37 - He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:25 - At that time, Jesus answering said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:26 - Yea, Father, for thus has it been well-pleasing in thy sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:27 - All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son but the Father, nor does any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son may be pleased to reveal him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:50

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:50 - for whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:43 - Then the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that has ears, let him hear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:4 - For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:5 - But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever it be by which received from me thou wouldest be profited:

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:6 - and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:13 - But he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:17 - And Jesus answering said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:27 - For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to each according to his doings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:10 - See that ye do not despise one of these little ones; for I say unto you that their angels in the heavens continually behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:14 - So it is not the will of your Father who is in the heavens that one of these little ones should perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:19 - Again I say to you, that if two of you shall agree on the earth concerning any matter, whatsoever it may be that they shall ask, it shall come to them from my Father who is in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 18:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:35 - Thus also my heavenly Father shall do to you if ye forgive not from your hearts every one his brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:5 - and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:19 - Honour thy father and thy mother, and Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:29 - And every one who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit life eternal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:23 - And he says to them, Ye shall drink indeed my cup, but to sit on my right hand and on my left, is not mine to give, but to those for whom it is prepared of my Father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:31 - Which of the two did the will of the father? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Verily I say unto you that the tax-gatherers and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:9 - And call not any one your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, he who is in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:30 - and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:32 - and *ye*, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.

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