And Elisha was watching and crying out, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen! So he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.

Now when the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, My father, shall I smite them? Shall I smite them?

Now Elisha had become sick with the illness from which he would die. And Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!

I will not show partiality to anyone, nor will I flatter any man.

For I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away.

Brethren and fathers, hear my defense before you now.

For though you might have countless instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,

older women as mothers, younger ones as sisters, with all purity.

Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.

In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in Heaven, Holy is Your name.

For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My fear? says Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, In what way have we despised Your name?

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.