You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
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.
Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father;
I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refus
Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s
Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you a
Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefo
“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the na
You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where
Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her f
You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enou
But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adul
When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery,