Matthew 23:9

Catholic Public Domain Version

And do not choose to call anyone on earth your father. For One is your Father, who is in heaven.

Cross References

2 Kings 13:14

Now Elisha was sick of the infirmity from which he also died. And Joash, the king of Israel, descended to him. And he was weeping before him, and saying: "My father, my father! The chariot of Israel and its driver!"

2 Kings 2:12

Then Elisha saw it, and he cried out: "My father, my father! The chariot of Israel with its driver!" And he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own garments, and he tore them into two parts.

2 Kings 6:21

And the king of Israel, when he had seen them, said to Elisha, "My father, should I not strike them?"

Malachi 1:6

The son honors the father, and the servant his master. If, therefore, I am Father, where is my honor? And if I am Master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And you have said, "In what way, have we despised your name?"

Matthew 23:10

Neither should you be called teachers. For One is your Teacher, the Christ.

Matthew 6:32

For the Gentiles seek all these things. Yet your Father knows that you need all these things.

Matthew 7:11

Therefore, if you, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more will your Father, who is in heaven, give good things to those who ask him?

Acts 22:1

"Noble brothers and fathers, listen to the explanation that I now give to you."

1 Corinthians 4:15

For you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, but not so many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, through the Gospel, I have begotten you.

2 Corinthians 6:18

Then I will accept you. And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."

Hebrews 12:9

Then, too, we have certainly had the fathers of our flesh as instructors, and we reverenced them. Should we not obey the Father of spirits all the more, and so live?

1 John 3:1

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, the sons of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him.