In the Bible, God is often referred to as the Father, emphasizing His loving and paternal relationship with humanity. As stated in 1 Corinthians 8:6 and Ephesians 4:6, there is one God, the Father, from whom all things come. Jesus teaches in Matthew 23:9 that God is the Father of all, and in Psalms 68:5, He is described as a Father to the fatherless. The prophet Isaiah also affirms this paternal nature, saying that God is the Potter, and we are the clay, in Isaiah 64:8, highlighting God's creative and nurturing role as Father.
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yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.
And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
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.
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.
Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves.
Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.