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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General references

Luke 22:26

Bible References

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It is enough for a scholar to be treated like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Baal-zebub, how much more the members of his household!

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and there was a voice from the cloud that said-- "This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight; him you must hear."

So he went up to Jesus at once, and exclaimed: "Welcome, Rabbi!" and kissed him;

"You yourselves call me 'the Teacher' and 'the Master', and you are right, for I am both.

The very purpose for which Christ died and came back to life was this--that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.

I mean this, that every one of you says either 'I follow Paul,' or 'I Apollos,' or 'I Kephas,' or 'I Christ.'

While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other men do?

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But I prayed for you, Simon, that your faith should not fail. And you, when you have returned to me, are to strengthen your Brothers."

From whom all 'fatherhood' in Heaven and on earth derives its name--

From Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and from Timothy, our Brother.

I, John, who am your Brother, and who share with you in the suffering and kingship and endurance of Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos, for the sake of the Message of God and the testimony to Jesus.

I prostrated myself at the feet of him who spoke to worship him, but he said to me- - 'Forbear; I am your fellow-servant, and the fellow-servant of your Brothers who bear their testimony to Jesus. Worship God. For to bear testimony to Jesus needs the inspiration of the Prophets.'

But he said to me-- 'Forbear; I am your fellow-servant, and the fellow-servant of your Brothers, the Prophets, and of all who lay to heart the words in this book. Worship God.'

General references

But with you it must not be so. No, let the greatest among you become like the youngest, and him who leads like him who serves.