Matthew 23:9 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁹ And do not call anyone on earth “father”, for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And do not call anyone [in the church] on earth father, for you have one Father, Who is in heaven.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, even he who is in heaven.

Common English Bible

⁹ Don’t call anybody on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is heavenly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ 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

⁹ And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.

Matthew 23:9 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 13:14

Now Elisha had been suffering from the illness from which he died. Jehoash king of Israel went down to see him and wept over him. ‘My father! My father!’ he cried. ‘The chariots and horsemen of Israel!’

2 Kings 2:12

Elisha saw this and cried out, ‘My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!’ And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two.

2 Kings 6:21

When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, ‘Shall I kill them, my father? Shall I kill them?’

Malachi 1:6

‘A son honours his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honour due to me? If I am a master, where is the respect due to me?’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘It is you priests who show contempt for my name. ‘But you ask, “How have we shown contempt for your name?”

Matthew 23:10

Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah.

Matthew 6:32

For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

Matthew 7:11

If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

Acts 22:1

‘Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defence.’

1 Corinthians 4:15

Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

2 Corinthians 6:18

And, ‘I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.’

Hebrews 12:9

Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!

1 John 3:1

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.