Hebrews 12:9

We respected our human fathers who disciplined us, so how much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live? Submission to God's discipline leads to true life.

Cross-references · 24

• Num 16:22But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”
• Num 27:16“May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
• Isa 42:5This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
• John 3:6Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
• Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
• Zech 12:1This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:
• Isa 38:16O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.
• Exod 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• Jas 4:7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• Isa 57:16For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
• 1 Pet 5:6Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.
• Prov 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
• Lev 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
• Deut 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
• Rom 9:5Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.
• Eccl 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• Eph 6:1–4Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
• Deut 21:18–21If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
• Jas 4:10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
• Ezek 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
• Mal 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
• Rom 1:3regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,
• Rom 9:3For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
• Acts 2:30But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

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