Matthew 23:9

Do not call anyone on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me? says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”

Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”

Matthew 7:11

If you then, who are 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!

1 Corinthians 4:15

For you can have 10,000 instructors in Christ, but you can’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

2 Kings 2:12

As Elisha watched, he kept crying out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” Then he never saw Elijah again. He took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.

2 Kings 6:21

When the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “My father, should I kill them? I will kill them.”

2 Kings 13:14

When Elisha became sick with the illness that he died from, Jehoash king of Israel went down and wept over him and said, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”

Job 32:21-22

I will be partial to no one,
and I will not give anyone an undeserved title.

Matthew 6:8-9

Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask Him.

Matthew 6:32

For the idolaters eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

Acts 22:1

“Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense before you.”

Romans 8:14-17

All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

2 Corinthians 6:18

I will be a Father to you,
and you will be sons and daughters to Me,
says the Lord Almighty.

1 Timothy 5:1-2

Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we had natural fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn’t we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?

1 John 3:1

Look at how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know Him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Matthew 23:9

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

For

1 John 3:1

General references

Luke 22:26

Bible References

For

Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask Him.

All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

I will be a Father

to you,

and you will be sons

and daughters to Me,

says the Lord Almighty.

Look at how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know Him.

General references

But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and whoever leads, like the one serving.