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12 Bible Verses About God as Father KJV
Abba is the Aramaic word a child used for his father, and Paul keeps it untranslated twice because no English word carries it. These verses cover the name, the Spirit that prompts it, and what it says about how believers are meant to come to God.
Abba is the Aramaic word for father — the word Jesus used in Gethsemane, and the word the Spirit teaches believers to pray. Each verse is quoted in full from the King James Version — tap a reference to read it in context, see cross references, and study the original words.
Matthew 6:9 · KJV
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Matthew 7:11 · KJV
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Mark 14:36 · KJV
And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Luke 11:2 · KJV
And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
John 1:12 · KJV
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Romans 8:15 · KJV
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Romans 8:16 · KJV
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Galatians 4:6 · KJV
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Ephesians 3:14-15 · KJV
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
Psalm 68:5 · KJV
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
2 Corinthians 6:18 · KJV
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
1 John 3:1 · KJV
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
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