Your heavenly Father

You are sons of the LORD your God. 1 The Father Himself loves you. 2

Be imitators of God, as dearly loved children. 3 Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. 4 Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. 5

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance. But as the One who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct. 6

Do not despise the LORD’s instruction and do not loathe His discipline; for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, just as a father, the son he delights in. 7

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him. 8 Your heavenly Father will forgive you. 9

God is a father of the fatherless. 10 All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons. You received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!” 11

Your Father knows the things you need before you ask Him. 12 What man among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! 13

 

1 Deut 14.1 2 Jn 16.27 3 Eph 5.1 4 Lk 6.36 5 Mt 5.48 6 1Pet 1.14-15 7 Prov 3.11-12 8 Psa 103.13 9 Mt 6.14 10 Psa 68.5 11 Rom 8.14-15 12 Mt 6.8 13 Mt 7.9-11