Matthew 23:9

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And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

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  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am a father, where is the honor I deserve? If I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise my name. But you ask, 'How have we despised your name?'
  • Rom 8:14-17 : 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 15 You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, 'Abba, Father.' 16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. 17 If we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings so that we may also share in His glory.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.
  • Job 32:21-22 : 21 I will not show partiality to anyone, nor will I flatter any person. 22 For I do not know how to flatter; otherwise, my Maker would take me away swiftly.
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 For even if you have countless teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.
  • 2 Kgs 2:12 : 12 Elisha saw this and cried out, 'My father, my father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!' And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.
  • Matt 7:11 : 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him?
  • Acts 22:1 : 1 Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense before you.
  • 2 Kgs 6:21 : 21 When the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, "My father, should I kill them? Should I kill them?"
  • 2 Kgs 13:14 : 14 Now Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die. Joash king of Israel came down to him, wept over him, and said, 'My father, my father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!'
  • Matt 6:8-9 : 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
  • Matt 6:32 : 32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
  • 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 And, 'I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty.
  • 1 Tim 5:1-2 : 1 Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but appeal to him as you would to a father. Treat younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters—with absolute purity.

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    41 You are doing the works of your father." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father—God."

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