“Your father made us work too hard! Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.

Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”

“Your servant our father is well,” they replied. “He is still alive.” They bowed down in humility.

Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

my father fought for you; he risked his life and delivered you from Midian’s power.

Jonathan responded to his father Saul, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

For the Lord disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.

A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.

The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but whoever associates with prostitutes wastes his wealth.

As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty.

In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.

So they made signs to the baby’s father, inquiring what he wanted to name his son.

Jesus answered, “I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father – and yet you dishonor me.

He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been.