Verses with the word father in the Apocrypha (92 verses):

1 Esdras 1:34
And the people took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of Josias his father, when he was twenty and three years old.

1 Esdras 4:20
A man leaveth his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and cleaveth unto his wife.

1 Esdras 4:21
He sticketh not to spend his life with his wife. and remembereth neither father, nor mother, nor country.

1 Esdras 4:25
Wherefore a man loveth his wife better than father or mother.

2 Esdras 1:28
Thus saith the Almighty Lord, Have I not prayed you as a father his sons, as a mother her daughters, and a nurse her young babes,

2 Esdras 1:29
That ye would be my people, and I should be your God; that ye would be my children, and I should be your father?

2 Esdras 2:5
As for me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant,

Tobit 1:4
And when I was in mine own country, in the land of Israel being but young, all the tribe of Nephthali my father fell from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, where the temple of the habitation of the most High was consecrated and built for all ages.

Tobit 1:5
Now all the tribes which together revolted, and the house of my father Nephthali, sacrificed unto the heifer Baal.

Tobit 1:8
And the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Debora my father's mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.

Tobit 2:3
But he came again, and said, Father, one of our nation is strangled, and is cast out in the marketplace.

Tobit 3:10
Whe she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.

Tobit 3:15
And that I never polluted my name, nor the name of my father, in the land of my captivity: I am the only daughter of my father, neither hath he any child to be his heir, neither any near kinsman, nor any son of his alive, to whom I may keep myself for a wife: my seven husbands are already dead; and why should I live? but if it please not thee that I should die, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, that I hear no more reproach.

Tobit 5:1
Tobias then answered and said, Father, I will do all things which thou hast commanded me:

Tobit 5:7
Then Tobias said unto him, Tarry for me, till I tell my father.

Tobit 5:8
Then he said unto him, Go and tarry not. So he went in and said to his father, Behold, I have found one which will go with me. Then he said, Call him unto me, that I may know of what tribe he is, and whether he be a trusty man to go with thee.

Tobit 5:16
So they were well pleased. Then said he to Tobias, Prepare thyself for the journey, and God send you a good journey. And when his son had prepared all things far the journey, his father said, Go thou with this man, and God, which dwelleth in heaven, prosper your journey, and the angel of God keep you company. So they went forth both, and the young man's dog with them.

Tobit 6:12
And the maid is fair and wise: now therefore hear me, and I will speak to her father; and when we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage: for I know that Raguel cannot marry her to another according to the law of Moses, but he shall be guilty of death, because the right of inheritance doth rather appertain to thee than to any other.

Tobit 6:14
And now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest if I go in unto her, I die, as the other before: for a wicked spirit loveth her, which hurteth no body, but those which come unto her; wherefore I also fear lest I die, and bring my father's and my mother's life because of me to the grave with sorrow: for they have no other son to bury them.

Tobit 6:15
Then the angel said unto him, Dost thou not remember the precepts which thy father gave thee, that thou shouldest marry a wife of thine own kindred? wherefore hear me, O my brother; for she shall be given thee to wife; and make thou no reckoning of the evil spirit; for this same night shall she be given thee in marriage.

Tobit 7:5
And they said, He is both alive, and in good health: and Tobias said, He is my father.

Tobit 7:13
Then he called his daughter Sara, and she came to her father, and he took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife to Tobias, saying, Behold, take her after the law of Moses, and lead her away to thy father. And he blessed them;

Tobit 8:21
And then he should take the half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and should have the rest when I and my wife be dead.

Tobit 9:4
But my father counteth the days; and if I tarry long, he will be very sorry.

Tobit 10:1
Now Tobit his father counted every day: and when the days of the journey were expired, and they came not,

Tobit 10:7
But she said, Hold thy peace, and deceive me not; my son is dead. And she went out every day into the way which they went, and did eat no meat on the daytime, and ceased not whole nights to bewail her son Tobias, until the fourteen days of the wedding were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. Then Tobias said to Raguel, Let me go, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.

Tobit 10:8
But his father in law said unto him, Tarry with me, and I will send to thy father, and they shall declare unto him how things go with thee.

Tobit 10:9
But Tobias said, No; but let me go to my father.

Tobit 10:12
And he said to his daughter, Honour thy father and thy mother in law, which are now thy parents, that I may hear good report of thee. And he kissed her. Edna also said to Tobias, The Lord of heaven restore thee, my dear brother, and grant that I may see thy children of my daughter Sara before I die, that I may rejoice before the Lord: behold, I commit my daughter unto thee of special trust; where are do not entreat her evil.

Tobit 11:2
Then Raphael said to Tobias, Thou knowest, brother, how thou didst leave thy father:

Tobit 11:6
And when she espied him coming, she said to his father, Behold, thy son cometh, and the man that went with him.

Tobit 11:7
Then said Raphael, I know, Tobias, that thy father will open his eyes.

Tobit 11:11
And took hold of his father: and he strake of the gall on his fathers' eyes, saying, Be of good hope, my father.

Tobit 11:15
For thou hast scourged, and hast taken pity on me: for, behold, I see my son Tobias. And his son went in rejoicing, and told his father the great things that had happened to him in Media.

Tobit 11:17
But Tobias gave thanks before them, because God had mercy on him. And when he came near to Sara his daughter in law, he blessed her, saying, Thou art welcome, daughter: God be blessed, which hath brought thee unto us, and blessed be thy father and thy mother. And there was joy among all his brethren which were at Nineve.

Tobit 12:2
And Tobias said unto him, O father, it is no harm to me to give him half of those things which I have brought:

Tobit 13:4
There declare his greatness, and extol him before all the living: for he is our Lord, and he is the God our Father for ever.

Tobit 14:12
And when Anna his mother was dead, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and children to Ecbatane to Raguel his father in law,

Tobit 14:13
Where he became old with honour, and he buried his father and mother in law honourably, and he inherited their substance, and his father Tobit's.

Judith 9:2
O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers, who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her, and discovered the thigh to her shame, and polluted her virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It shall not be so; and yet they did so:

Judith 9:12
I pray thee, I pray thee, O God of my father, and God of the inheritance of Israel, Lord of the heavens and earth, Creator of the waters, king of every creature, hear thou my prayer:

Wisdom of Solomon 2:16
We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.

Wisdom of Solomon 10:1
She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,

Wisdom of Solomon 11:10
For these thou didst admonish and try, as a father: but the other, as a severe king, thou didst condemn and punish.

Wisdom of Solomon 14:3
But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: for thou hast made a way in the sea, and a safe path in the waves;

Wisdom of Solomon 14:15
For a father afflicted with untimely mourning, when he hath made an image of his child soon taken away, now honoured him as a god, which was then a dead man, and delivered to those that were under him ceremonies and sacrifices.

Sirach 3:1
Hear me your father, O children, and do thereafter, that ye may be safe.

Sirach 3:2
For the Lord hath given the father honour over the children, and hath confirmed the authority of the mother over the sons.

Sirach 3:3
Whoso honoureth his father maketh an atonement for his sins:

Sirach 3:5
Whoso honoureth his father shall have joy of his own children; and when he maketh his prayer, he shall be heard.

Sirach 3:6
He that honoureth his father shall have a long life; and he that is obedient unto the Lord shall be a comfort to his mother.

Sirach 3:7
He that feareth the Lord will honour his father, and will do service unto his parents, as to his masters.

Sirach 3:8
Honour thy father and mother both in word and deed, that a blessing may come upon thee from them.

Sirach 3:9
For the blessing of the father establisheth the houses of children; but the curse of the mother rooteth out foundations.

Sirach 3:10
Glory not in the dishonour of thy father; for thy father's dishonour is no glory unto thee.

Sirach 3:11
For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father; and a mother in dishonour is a reproach to the children.

Sirach 3:12
My son, help thy father in his age, and grieve him not as long as he liveth.

Sirach 3:14
For the relieving of thy father shall not be forgotten: and instead of sins it shall be added to build thee up.

Sirach 3:16
He that forsaketh his father is as a blasphemer; and he that angereth his mother is cursed: of God.

Sirach 4:10
Be as a father unto the fatherless, and instead of an husband unto their mother: so shalt thou be as the son of the most High, and he shall love thee more than thy mother doth.

Sirach 7:27
Honour thy father with thy whole heart, and forget not the sorrows of thy mother.

Sirach 22:3
An evilnurtured man is the dishonour of his father that begat him: and a [foolish] daughter is born to his loss.

Sirach 22:5
She that is bold dishonoureth both her father and her husband, but they both shall despise her.

Sirach 23:1
O Lord, Father and Governor of all my whole life, leave me not to their counsels, and let me not fall by them.

Sirach 23:4
O Lord, Father and God of my life, give me not a proud look, but turn away from thy servants always a haughty mind.

Sirach 23:14
Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse they day of thy nativity.

Sirach 30:4
Though his father die, yet he is as though he were not dead: for he hath left one behind him that is like himself.

Sirach 41:7
The children will complain of an ungodly father, because they shall be reproached for his sake.

Sirach 41:17
Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother: and of a lie before a prince and a mighty man;

Sirach 42:9
The father waketh for the daughter, when no man knoweth; and the care for her taketh away sleep: when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age; and being married, lest she should be hated:

Sirach 44:19
Abraham was a great father of many people: in glory was there none like unto him;

Sirach 48:10
Who wast ordained for reproofs in their times, to pacify the wrath of the Lord's judgment, before it brake forth into fury, and to turn the heart of the father unto the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.

Sirach 48:22
For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord, and was strong in the ways of David his father, as Esay the prophet, who was great and faithful in his vision, had commanded him.

Sirach 51:10
I called upon the Lord, the Father of my Lord, that he would not leave me in the days of my trouble, and in the time of the proud, when there was no help.

Additions to Esther 16:11
Had so far forth obtained the favour that we shew toward every nation, as that he was called our father, and was continually honoured of all the next person unto the king.

Susanna 1:30
So she came with her father and mother, her children, and all her kindred.

1 Maccabees 2:54
Phinees our father in being zealous and fervent obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.

1 Maccabees 2:65
And behold, I know that your brother Simon is a man of counsel, give ear unto him alway: he shall be a father unto you.

1 Maccabees 3:2
And all his brethren helped him, and so did all they that held with his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle of Israel.

1 Maccabees 6:23
We have been willing to serve thy father, and to do as he would have us, and to obey his commandments;

1 Maccabees 11:32
King Demetrius unto his father Lasthenes sendeth greeting:

1 Maccabees 13:27
Simon also built a monument upon the sepulchre of his father and his brethren, and raised it aloft to the sight, with hewn stone behind and before.

1 Maccabees 13:28
Moreover he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for his father, and his mother, and his four brethren.

1 Maccabees 14:26
For he and his brethren and the house of his father have established Israel, and chased away in fight their enemies from them, and confirmed their liberty.

1 Maccabees 16:1
Then came up John from Gazera, and told Simon his father what Cendebeus had done.

1 Maccabees 16:21
Now one had run afore to Gazera and told John that his father and brethren were slain, and, quoth he, Ptolemee hath sent to slay thee also.

1 Maccabees 16:24
Behold, these are written in the chronicles of his priesthood, from the time he was made high priest after his father.

2 Maccabees 4:11
And the royal privileges granted of special favour to the Jews by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome for amity and aid, he took away; and putting down the governments which were according to the law, he brought up new customs against the law:

2 Maccabees 9:23
But considering that even my father, at what time he led an army into the high countries. appointed a successor,

2 Maccabees 11:23
Since our father is translated unto the gods, our will is, that they that are in our realm live quietly, that every one may attend upon his own affairs.

2 Maccabees 11:24
We understand also that the Jews would not consent to our father, for to be brought unto the custom of the Gentiles, but had rather keep their own manner of living: for the which cause they require of us, that we should suffer them to live after their own laws.

2 Maccabees 14:37
Now was there accused unto Nicanor one Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, a lover of his countrymen, and a man of very good report, who for his kindness was called a father of the Jews.