Matthew 23:8

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Summary

Matthew 23:8

But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

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1 Corinthians 3:3

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Luke 22:26

Bible References

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enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!

He was still speaking when a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight: listen to him."

So he went up at once to Jesus; "Hail, rabbi!" he said, and kissed him.

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right: that is what I am.

it was for this that Christ died and rose and came to life, to be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

By 'quarrelling' I mean that each of you has his party-cry, "I belong to Paul," "And I to Apollos," "And I to Cephas," "And I to Christ."

you are still worldly. For with jealousy and quarrels in your midst, are you not worldly, are you not behaving like ordinary men?

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but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And you in turn must be a strength to your brothers."

from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name and nature,

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, and brother Timotheus,

I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.

Then I fell before his feet to worship him; but he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers, who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God" (for the testimony borne by Jesus is the breath of all prophecy).

& 10] And he said to me, "These words are trustworthy and genuine, for the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets has sent his angel to show his servants what must very soon come to pass.

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not so with you. He who is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and he who is chief like a servant.