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 16:22And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
• Num 27:16Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
• Isa 42:5Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
• John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• Job 12:10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
• Zech 12:1The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
• Isa 38:16O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
• Exod 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Jas 4:7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• Isa 57:16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
• 1 Pet 5:6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
• Prov 30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
• Lev 19:3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
• Deut 27:16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• Rom 9:5Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
• Eccl 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• Eph 6:1–4Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
• Deut 21:18–21If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
• Jas 4:10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
• Ezek 22:7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
• Mal 1:6A 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?
• Rom 1:3Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
• Rom 9:3For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
• Acts 2:30Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

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