SPIRITUAL FATHERS AND SONS

Greek:

pater       father, ancestor

pateres    fathers, ancestors

teknon    child, descendant

hulos      son, descendant, offspring

I Corinthians 4:14 “I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons (teknon) I warn you.”

I Corinthians 4:15 “For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers (pateres): for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.”

I Corinthians 4:17 “For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son (teknon), and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.”

Philippians 2:22 “But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son (teknon) with the father (pater), he (Timotheus) hath served with me in the gospel.”

I Thessalonians 2:11 “As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father (pater) doth his children.”

I Timothy 1:2 “Unto Timothy, my own son (teknon) in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.”

I Timothy 1:18 “This charge I commit unto thee, son (teknon) Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightiest war a good warfare;”

I Timothy 5:1 “Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father (pater); and the younger men as brethren;”

II Timothy 1:2 “To Timothy, my dearly beloved son (teknon): Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.”

II Timothy 2:1 “Thou therefore, my son (teknon), be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.”

Titus 1:4 “To Titus, mine own son (teknon) after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.”

Philemon 10 “I beseech thee my son (teknon) Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:”

I Peter 5:13 “The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son (hulos).”

I John 2:13 (Larger Passage I John 2:1-29) “I write unto you, fathers (pateres), because ye have known him that is from the beginning.  I write unto you, young men (neaniskos = a youth, under forty, young man), because ye have overcome the wicked one.  I write unto you, little children (paidion = an infant, little, young, child, a half grown boy or girl, figuratively an immature person), because ye have known the Father.”