Matthew 23:9

English Majority Text Version

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

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 guides 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 given to 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.