Verse 9

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

Referenced Verses

  • Mal 1:6 : 6 "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 Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
  • Rom 8:14-17 : 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. 15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 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?
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 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.
  • Job 32:21-22 : 21 Please don't let me respect any man's person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man. 22 For I don't know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
  • 2 Kgs 2:12 : 12 Elisha saw it, and he cried, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" He saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in 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 who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
  • Acts 22:1 : 1 "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
  • 2 Kgs 6:21 : 21 The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, "My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?"
  • 2 Kgs 13:14 : 14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!"
  • Matt 6:8-9 : 8 Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him. 9 Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
  • Matt 6:32 : 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
  • 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."
  • 1 Tim 5:1-2 : 1 Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; 2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.