πατήρ patḗr

Meaning

a "father" (literally or figuratively, near or more remote)

In the King James Version: father, parent

Derivation: apparently a primary word;

Where it is used

• Galatians 4:6 And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
• Ephesians 1:2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
• Ephesians 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
• Ephesians 2:18 For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
• Ephesians 3:14 ... for this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
• Ephesians 4:6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
• Ephesians 5:20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Ephesians 5:31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
• Ephesians 6:2 “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
• Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
• Ephesians 6:23 Peace to the brothers and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Philippians 1:2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Philippians 2:11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
• Philippians 2:22 But you know Timothy’s proven worth, that as a child with his father he has served with me to advance the gospel.
• Philippians 4:20 To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Colossians 1:2 To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.
• Colossians 1:3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
• Colossians 1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.
• Colossians 2:2 that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,
• Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
• Colossians 3:21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
• 1 Thessalonians 1:1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you.
• 1 Thessalonians 1:3 and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Thessalonians 2:11 For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—
• 1 Thessalonians 3:11 Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.
• 1 Thessalonians 3:13 so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.
• 2 Thessalonians 1:1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
• 2 Thessalonians 1:2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
• 1 Timothy 1:2 To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 1 Timothy 5:1 Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,
• 2 Timothy 1:2 To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Titus 1:4 To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
• Philemon 1:3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Hebrews 1:1 On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.
• Hebrews 1:5 For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father”? Or again: “I will be His Father, and He will be My Son”?
• Hebrews 3:9 where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
• Hebrews 7:10 For when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the loin of his ancestor.
• Hebrews 8:9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord.
• Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict.
• Hebrews 12:7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
• Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
• James 1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
• James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
• James 2:21 Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
• James 3:9 With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.
• 1 Peter 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
• 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• 1 Peter 1:17 Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.
• 2 Peter 1:17 For He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to Him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
• 2 Peter 3:4 “Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”
• 1 John 1:2 And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.
• 1 John 1:3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.
• 1 John 2:1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
• 1 John 2:13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
• 1 John 2:14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
• 1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• 1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
• 1 John 2:22 Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.