Matthew 23:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
And do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.

New Living Translation
And don’t address anyone here on earth as ‘Father,’ for only God in heaven is your Father.

English Standard Version
And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Berean Study Bible
And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

New American Standard Bible
And do not call anyone on earth your father; for only One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

NASB 1995
"Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

NASB 1977
“And do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

Amplified Bible
Do not call anyone on earth [who guides you spiritually] your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

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

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

Contemporary English Version
Don't call anyone on earth your father. All of you have the same Father in heaven.

Good News Translation
And you must not call anyone here on earth 'Father,' because you have only the one Father in heaven.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
And don't call anyone on earth your father, because you have only one Father, and he is in heaven.

International Standard Version
And don't call anyone on earth 'Father,' because you have only one Father, the one in heaven.

NET Bible
And call no one your 'father' on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

New King James Version
Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

King James 2000 Bible
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, who is in heaven.

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

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

American King James Version
And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

American Standard Version
And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, even he who is in heaven.

A Faithful Version
Also, do not call anyone on the earth your Father; for one is your Father, Who is in heaven.

Darby Bible Translation
And call not [any one] your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, he who is in the heavens.

English Revised Version
And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Webster's Bible Translation
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father who is in heaven.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And call no man your father vpon the earth: for there is but one, your father which is in heauen.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And call no man your father, vpon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heauen.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And call no man father vpon earth, for one is youre father, which is in heaue.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And call no man youre father vpon the erth for there is but one youre father and he is in heven.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and you may not call [any] your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

Berean Literal Bible
And call no one your father on the earth; for One is your Father, who is in heaven.

Young's Literal Translation
and ye may not call any your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

Smith's Literal Translation
And call not your father upon earth: for one is your Father, which in the heavens.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And do not call any one upon the earth father; for One is your Father, who is in heaven.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And do not choose to call anyone on earth your father. For One is your Father, who is in heaven.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you should not call yourselves “Father”, in the earth, for one is your Father who is in Heaven.

Lamsa Bible
And call no one on earth, father, for one is your Father in heaven.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
And call no man on earth your father; for one is your Father, who is in heaven.

Godbey New Testament
And call no man father upon the earth: for One is your Heavenly Father.

Haweis New Testament
And call no man your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.

Mace New Testament
don't stile any one among you, Father upon earth; for he alone is your father, who is in heaven.

Weymouth New Testament
And call no one on earth your Father, for One alone is your Father--the Heavenly Father.

Worrell New Testament
And call no one your father on the earth; for One is your Father, the Heavenly.

Worsley New Testament
Neither call any man upon earth Father; for one is your Father, who is in heaven:
















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