Matthew 23:9 - The Scriptures 2009

⁹ “And do not call anyone on earth your father, for One is your Father, He who is in the heavens.

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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

And Elisha had become sick with the sickness in which he died. And Yo’ash the sovereign of Yisra’ĕl came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, “O my father, my father, the chariots of Yisra’ĕl and their horsemen!”

2 Kings 2:12

And Elisha saw it, and he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Yisra’ĕl and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garments and tore them into two pieces.

2 Kings 6:21

And when the sovereign of Yisra’ĕl saw them, he said to Elisha, “My father, should I strike? Should I strike?”

Malachi 1:6

“A son esteems his father, and a servant his master. And if I am the Father, where is My esteem? And if I am a Master, where is My fear? said יהוה of hosts to you priests who despise My Name. But you asked, ‘In what way have we despised Your Name?’

Matthew 23:10

“Neither be called leaders, for One is your Leader, the Messiah.

Matthew 6:32

“For all these the nations seek for. And your heavenly Father knows that you need all these.

Matthew 7:11

“If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give what is good to those who ask Him!

Acts 22:1

“Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defence before you now.”

1 Corinthians 4:15

For if you should have ten thousand instructors in Messiah, yet not many fathers, for in Messiah יהושע I have brought you forth through the Good News.

2 Corinthians 6:18

“And I shall be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me, says יהוה the Almighty.”

Hebrews 12:9

Moreover, we indeed had fathers of our flesh disciplining us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather 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 Elohim! For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.