Matthew 23:9

Modern English Version

And call no man on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Cross References

2 Kings 13:14

Now Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die. So Joash the king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen.”

2 Kings 2:12

Elisha was watching and crying, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he did not see him again. Then he grabbed his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

2 Kings 6:21

The king of Israel said to Elisha when he saw them, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My fear? says the Lord of Hosts to you, O priests, who despise My name. But you say, “How have we despised Your name?”

Matthew 23:10

Nor be called teachers, for you have one Teacher, the Christ.

Matthew 6:32

For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and 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, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

Acts 22:1

“Brothers and fathers, hear my defense that I now make before you.”

1 Corinthians 4:15

For if you were to have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. In Christ Jesus I have become a father to you through the gospel.

2 Corinthians 6:18

“I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we have had human fathers, and they corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

1 John 3:1

Consider how much love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.