Matthew 23:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father in heaven.

Cross References

2 Kings 13:14

When Elisha was suffering from the sickness of which he was to die, Joash, king of Israel, went down to weep over him. “My father, my father!” he exclaimed, “Israel’s chariot and steeds!”

2 Kings 2:12

and Elisha saw it happen. He cried out, “My father! my father! Israel’s chariot and steeds!” Then he saw him no longer. He gripped his own garment, tore it into two pieces,

2 Kings 6:21

When the king of Israel saw them, he asked, “Shall I kill them, my father? Shall I kill them?”

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father, and a servant fears his master; If, then, I am a father, where is the honor due to me? And if I am a master, where is the fear due to me? So says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who disdain my name. But you ask, “How have we disdained your name?”

Matthew 23:10

Do not be called ‘Master’; you have but one master, the Messiah.

Matthew 6:32

All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

Matthew 7:11

If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him. The Golden Rule.

Acts 22:1

“My brothers and fathers, listen to what I am about to say to you in my defense.”

1 Corinthians 4:15

Even if you should have countless guides to Christ, yet you do not 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 shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Hebrews 12:9

Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not [then] submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.