Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father;
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are
This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob
Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion, where
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.
and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled
Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly
Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the chu
everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship
Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they
You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understa
You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Hims
“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Ro
“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
How can I repay the LORD for all His goodness to me?
Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your pla
I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass
Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.