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John 8:41

WEB

41You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

KJV

41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

BSB

41You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”

FBV

41You're doing what your father does.” “Well we[+] are not illegitimate,” they responded. “God alone is our father!”

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Extra References

Isaiah 64:8

8But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Isaiah 63:16

16For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, LORD, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

John 8:38

38I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

John 8:44

44You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Malachi 2:11

11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

Jeremiah 3:19

19“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

Isaiah 57:3-7

3“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes. 4Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood, 5you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? 6Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things? 7On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

Deuteronomy 14:1

1You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Malachi 1:6

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

Jeremiah 31:20

20Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says the LORD.