Matthew 23:9

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And call no man your father, vpon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heauen.

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  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A sonne honoureth his father, and a seruaunt his maister: If then I be a father, where is myne honour? if I be a maister, where is my feare? Saith the Lorde God of hoastes to you O ye pristes that despise my name, and ye say, Wherein haue we despised thy name?
  • Rom 8:14-17 : 14 For as many as are led by the spirite of God, they are the sonnes of God. 15 For ye haue not receaued the spirite of bondage agayne to feare: but ye haue receaued the spirite of adoption, wherby we cry, Abba, father. 16 The same spirite, beareth witnesse to our spirite, that we are ye sonnes of God. 17 If we be sonnes, then are we also heyres, the heyres of God, and ioyntheyres with Christe: So that we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we haue had fathers of our fleshe, which corrected vs, and we gaue them reuerence: Shall we not then much rather be in subiection vnto the father of spirites, and lyue?
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 Beholde what loue the father hath shewed on vs, that we shoulde be called the sonnes of god: For this cause the worlde knoweth you not, because it knoweth not hym.
  • Job 32:21-22 : 21 I will regarde no maner of person, no man will I spare. 22 For if I woulde go about to please men, I knowe not howe soone my maker would take me away.
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 For though ye haue ten thousande instructours in Christ, yet haue ye not many fathers: For in Christe Iesu I haue begotten you through the Gospell.
  • 2 Kgs 2:12 : 12 And Elisa sawe, and cryed: O my father, O my father, the charet of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he sawe him no more: and he toke his owne clothes, and rent them in two peeces.
  • Matt 7:11 : 11 If ye then, beyng euyll, knowe to geue your chyldren good gyftes: howe much more shall your father, which is in heauen, geue good thynges, to them that aske hym?
  • Acts 22:1 : 1 Men, brethren, & fathers, heare ye mine aunswer whiche I make vnto you.
  • 2 Kgs 6:21 : 21 And the king of Israel sayde vnto Elisa when he sawe them: My father, shall I smyte them, shall I smyte them?
  • 2 Kgs 13:14 : 14 When Elisa was fallen sicke of his sicknesse whereof he dyed, Ioas the king of Israel came downe vnto him, and wept before him, and saide: O my father, my father, the charet of Israel, & the horsemen of the same.
  • Matt 6:8-9 : 8 Be not ye therfore lyke vnto them. For your father knoweth, what thynges ye haue nede of, before ye aske of hym. 9 After this maner therfore pray ye. O our father, which art in heauen, halowed be thy name.
  • Matt 6:32 : 32 (For after all these thynges, do the Gentiles seke:) for your heauenly father knoweth, that ye haue nede of all these thynges.
  • 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 And wyll be a father vnto you, and ye shalbe my sonnes and daughters, saith the Lorde almightie.
  • 1 Tim 5:1-2 : 1 Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father, the younger men as brethren, 2 The elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, in all chastitie.

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