Matthew 23:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Do not call anyone on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Cross References

1 John 3:1

See what great love  the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children #– #and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we had human fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn’t we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?

Malachi 1:6

‘A son honours his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me?  says the Lord of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.’ Yet you ask, ‘How have we despised your name? ’

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.

1 Corinthians 4:15

For you may have countless instructors in Christ, but you don’t have many fathers. For I became your father  in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

2 Corinthians 6:18

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

Acts 22:1

‘Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defence before you.’

2 Kings 2:12

As Elisha watched, he kept crying out, ‘My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel! ’ When he could see him no longer, he took hold of his own clothes, tore them in two,

Matthew 6:32

For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

2 Kings 13:14

When Elisha became sick with the illness from which he died, King Jehoash of Israel went down and wept over him and said, ‘My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel! ’

2 Kings 6:21

When the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, ‘Should I kill them,  should I kill them, my father? ’

Matthew 23:10

You are not to be called instructors either, because you have one Instructor, the Messiah.