Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
5 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “father” →
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us , and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
