Quotes About Fathers

“The LORD was very angry with your fathers.

Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ëJust as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.í”

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Hosts,

Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ëHow can we return?í

And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.

So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.

So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.

ëI am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.í Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.

He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.

But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,

You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.

And now we proclaim to you the good news: What God promised our fathers

“Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense before you.”

Then he said, ëThe God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear His voice.