Deuteronomy 32:6

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Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your Creator? He has made you and established you.

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  • Isa 63:16 : 16 For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, LORD, are our father; you have been called our protector from ancient times.
  • Ps 74:2 : 2 Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times, whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation, as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!
  • Isa 44:2 : 2 This is what the LORD, the one who made you, says– the one who formed you in the womb and helps you:“Don’t be afraid, my servant Jacob, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen!
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
  • Gal 3:26 : 26 For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.
  • Gal 4:6 : 6 And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls“Abba! Father!”
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
  • John 8:41 : 41 You people are doing the deeds of your father.”Then they said to Jesus,“We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.”
  • 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
  • Isa 43:7 : 7 everyone who belongs to me, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed– yes, whom I made!
  • Ps 100:3 : 3 Acknowledge that the LORD is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
  • Ps 149:2 : 2 Let Israel rejoice in their Creator! Let the people of Zion delight in their King!
  • Deut 1:31 : 31 and in the wilderness, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 Israel’s Rebellion But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.
  • Deut 32:18 : 18 You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.
  • Job 10:8 : 8 Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.
  • Ps 74:18 : 18 Remember how the enemy hurls insults, O LORD, and how a foolish nation blasphemes your name!
  • Ps 95:6 : 6 Come! Let’s bow down and worship! Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Creator!
  • Exod 4:22 : 22 You must say to Pharaoh,‘This is what the LORD has said,“Israel is my son, my firstborn,
  • Exod 15:16 : 16 Fear and dread will fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they will be as still as stone until your people pass by, O LORD, until the people whom you have bought pass by.
  • Isa 1:2 : 2 Obedience, not Sacrifice Listen, O heavens, pay attention, O earth! For the LORD speaks:“I raised children, I brought them up, but they have rebelled against me!
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
  • Isa 43:3-4 : 3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your deliverer. I have handed over Egypt as a ransom price, Ethiopia and Seba in place of you. 4 Since you are precious and special in my sight, and I love you, I will hand over people in place of you, nations in place of your life.
  • Ps 116:12 : 12 How can I repay the LORD for all his acts of kindness to me?
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died. 15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
  • Gal 3:1-3 : 1 Justification by Law or by Faith? You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified! 2 The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard? 3 Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 The LORD answered,“This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:
  • Luke 15:18-20 : 18 I will get up and go to my father and say to him,“Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers.”’ 20 So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.
  • Titus 2:11-14 : 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. 12 It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 The False Teachers’ Ungodly Lifestyle But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves.

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