Matthew 23:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father, the one 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

2 Kings 13:14

Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, King Joash of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

2 Kings 2:12

Elisha kept watching and crying out, “Father, father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” But when he could no longer see him, he grasped his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

2 Kings 6:21

When the king of Israel saw them he said to Elisha, “Father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is the honor due me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, “How have we despised your name?”

Matthew 23:10

Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Messiah.

Matthew 6:32

For it is the gentiles who seek all these things, and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

Matthew 7:11

If you, then, who are 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!

Acts 22:1

“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense that I now make before you.”

1 Corinthians 4:15

For though you might have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Indeed, in Christ Jesus I fathered you through the gospel.

2 Corinthians 6:18

and I will be your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Hebrews 12:9

Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.