Matthew 23:9
and you may not call [any] your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
In Context
8And you may not be called Rabbi, for one is your teacher—the Christ, and you are all brothers;
10nor may you be called teachers, for one is your teacher—the Christ.
Cross References
2 Kings 2:12And Elisha is seeing, and he is crying, “My father! My father! The chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he has not seen him again; and he takes hold on his garments and tears them into two pieces.
2 Kings 13:14And Elisha has been sick with his sickness in which he dies, and Joash king of Israel comes down to him and weeps on his face, and says, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and its horsemen.”
Malachi 1:6A son honors a father, and a servant his master. And if I [am] a father, where [is] My glory? And if I [am] a master, where [is] My fear? Said YHWH of Hosts to you, || O priests, despising My Name! And you have said, In what have we despised Your Name?
Matthew 6:32For the nations seek for all these, for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these;
Acts 22:1“Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defense now to you.”
1 Corinthians 4:15for if a myriad of child-conductors you may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I begot you;
Matthew Henry on Matthew 23:2-13
The Scribes and Pharisees Condemned; Cautions against Pride. 1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men:… Read the whole commentary →