Matthew 23:9

Seven Woes Pronounced On The Scribes And Pharisees

⁸ “But as for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi,’ because you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. ⁹ Do not call anyone on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is in heaven. ¹⁰ And do not be called masters either, because you have one Master, the Messiah.

Father in Heaven

Heavenly Father

On Earth

One Father

Our Father in Heaven

No

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.