to the saints, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you from God our Father!

to Timothy, my genuine child in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord!

to Timothy, my dear child. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord!

To Titus, my genuine son in a common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior!

so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

“Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

But he replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory – the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

So Jesus added, “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”