9And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
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Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. …
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)We find not Christ, in all his preaching, so severe upon any sort of people as upon these scribes and Pharisees ; for the truth is, nothing is more directly opposite to the spirit of the gospel than the temper and practice of that generation of men, who were made up of pride, worldliness, and tyranny, under a cloak and pretence of religion; yet these were the idols and darlings of the people, who…
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