Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Yo'ash the king of Yisra'el came down to him, and wept over him, and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Yisra'el and the horsemen of it!
Matthew 23:9 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And do not call anyone [in the church] on earth father, for you have one Father, Who is in heaven. American Standard Version (1901) And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, even he who is in heaven. Common English Bible Don’t call anybody on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is heavenly. Catholic Public Domain Version And do not choose to call anyone on earth your father. For One is your Father, who is in heaven. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven. |
Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Yo'ash the king of Yisra'el came down to him, and wept over him, and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Yisra'el and the horsemen of it!
Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Yisra'el and the horsemen of it! He saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.
The king of Yisra'el said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I strike them? shall I strike them?
*A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says the LORD of Armies to you, Kohanim, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
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!
*Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.*
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Messiah, yet not many fathers. For in Messiah Yeshua, I became your father through the Good News.
I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty.*
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?
Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.