Neither are you to be called instructors, for there is one who is your instructor, the Christ.
Matthew 23:9 - The Text-Critical English New Testament And do not call anyone on earth your father, for there is one who is your Father, he who is in heaven. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And do not call anyone [in the church] on earth father, for you have one Father, Who is in heaven. American Standard Version (1901) And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, even he who is in heaven. Common English Bible Don’t call anybody on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is heavenly. Catholic Public Domain Version And do not choose to call anyone on earth your father. For One is your Father, who is in heaven. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven. |
Neither are you to be called instructors, for there is one who is your instructor, the Christ.
For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
For even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you would not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I became a father to you through the gospel.
I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?
See what great love the Father has lavished upon us, that we should be called children of God! The reason the world does not know you is that it did not know him.