Matthew 23:9 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁹ Do not call [anyone] on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And do not call anyone [in the church] on earth father, for you have one Father, Who is in heaven.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, even he who is in heaven.

Common English Bible

⁹ Don’t call anybody on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is heavenly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ 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

⁹ And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.

Matthew 23:9 Cross References

Matthew 23:10

Neither be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ.

Matthew 6:32

"For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

Matthew 7:11

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, by how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

Acts 22:1

"Men, brothers and fathers, hear my defense to you now."

1 Corinthians 4:15

For though you might have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet [you do] not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

2 Corinthians 6:18

"I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty."

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected [them.] Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

1 John 3:1

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! On account of this the world does not know you, because it did not know Him.