My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.
If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.
Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.
The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.
Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.
He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.
He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.
A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.
There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:
For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.
My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.
To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.
As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.
Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.
The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.
When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.
O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;
A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.
He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;
And I saw the Lamb on the mountain of Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, marked on their brows with his name and the name of his Father.
And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.
And he will be ruling them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of the potter they will be broken, even as I have power from my Father:
To him who overcomes I will give a place with me on my high seat, even as I overcame, and am seated with my Father on his high seat.
He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,
So that with one mouth you may give glory to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
What, then, may we say that Abraham, our father after the flesh, has got?
And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;
And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.
For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
(As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.
Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.
We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.
For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.
And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac--
And Boaz answering said to her, I have had news of everything you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband; how you went away from your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people who are strange to you.
And the women who were her neighbours gave it a name, saying, Naomi has a child; and they gave him the name of Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron;
And Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab;
And Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon;
And Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed;
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