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 16:22They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
• Num 27:16“Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
• Isa 42:5Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.
• John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• Job 12:10in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
• Zech 12:1A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
• Isa 38:16Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.
• Exod 20:12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
• Jas 4:7Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• Isa 57:16For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
• 1 Pet 5:6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;
• Prov 30:17“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
• Lev 19:3“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
• Deut 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
• Rom 9:5of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
• Eccl 12:7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, 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 will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
• Jas 4:10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
• Ezek 22:7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
• Mal 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
• Rom 1:3concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,
• Rom 9:3For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives 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 body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

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