Matthew 23:9-10

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.^[a] ¹⁰Neither be called masters, for you have one master, the Christ.

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23.9 i.e., “Do not use the title without reference to God’s universal fatherhood.” He cannot mean that the title is never to be used by a son to his father.

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