Common English Bible

Matthew 23:5-9 Common English Bible (CEB)

5. Everything they do, they do to be noticed by others. They make extra-wide prayer bands for their arms and long tassels for their clothes.

6. They love to sit in places of honor at banquets and in the synagogues.

7. They love to be greeted with honor in the markets and to be addressed as ‘Rabbi.’

8. “But you shouldn’t be called Rabbi, because you have one teacher, and all of you are brothers and sisters.

9. Don’t call anybody on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is heavenly.