as a father # 52_1TH_02_11  As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father [doth] his children, ## As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father [doth] his children, 
as a father # 54_1TI_05_01  Rebuke not an elder, but entreat [him] as a father; [and] the younger men as brethren; ## Rebuke not an elder, but entreat [him] as a father; [and] the younger men as brethren; 
as a father # 20_PRO_03_12  For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in whom] he delighteth. ## For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in whom] he delighteth. 
as a father # 19_PSA_103_13 # Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him. 
was a father # 18_JOB_29_16  I  [was] a father to the poor_ and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. ## I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.