Mat 23:8-10 | Family | STEP | Brethren ; equally children of God, and fellow-heirs of Christ; no one of you having authority to control the faith and practice of the rest.

Matthew 23:8-10

Brethren; equally children of God, and fellow-heirs of Christ; no one of you having authority to control the faith and practice of the rest. Call no man your father; as having authority over your faith and practice. In matters of religion and conscience, ministers of the gospel cannot bow to mere human authority without giving to men what belongs only to God; and men who, on the ground of such authority, claim to be fathers and masters to their brethren, directing them what to believe and do, are antichrists, denying in practice the prerogatives of both the Father and the Son. Masters; as leaders and controllers of Christ's ministers and people.