Do you thus deal with the Lord,O foolish and unwise people?Is He not your Father, who bought you?Has He not made you and established you?

so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Have we not all one Father?Has not one God created us?Why do we deal treacherously with one anotherBy profaning the covenant of the fathers?

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me.

But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!

They shall come with weeping,And with supplications I will lead them.I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters,In a straight way in which they shall not stumble;For I am a Father to Israel,And Ephraim is My firstborn.

As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

“Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.