Matthew 23:9

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

Cross References

2 Kings 13:14

Now Elisha became sick with the illness of which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

2 Kings 2:12

Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of 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 strike them? Shall I strike them?”

Malachi 1:6

“A son honours his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

Matthew 23:10

Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Messiah.

Matthew 6:32

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

Acts 22:1

“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defence which I now make to you.”

1 Corinthians 4:15

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Messiah, you don’t have many fathers. For in Messiah Yeshua, I became your father through the Good News.

2 Corinthians 6:18

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

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

1 John 3:1

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.