Hebrews 12:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Moreover, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we yielded [to them] and respected [them for training us]. Shall we not much more cheerfully submit to the Father of spirits and so [truly] live?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Common English Bible

⁹ What’s more, we had human parents who disciplined us, and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Then, too, we have certainly had the fathers of our flesh as instructors, and we reverenced them. Should we not obey the Father of spirits all the more, and so live?

Hebrews 12:9 Cross References

Numbers 16:22

They fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one person sin and you become angry with the whole congregation?”

Numbers 27:16

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint someone over the congregation

Isaiah 42:5

Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:

John 3:6

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Job 12:10

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being.

Zechariah 12:1

An Oracle. The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within:

Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Isaiah 38:16

O Lord, by these things people live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh, restore me to health and make me live!

1 Peter 5:6

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time.

James 4:7

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not continually accuse, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirits would grow faint before me, even the souls that I have made.

Leviticus 19:3

You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Romans 9:5

to them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, comes the Christ, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Deuteronomy 27:16

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors father or mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is the honor due me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, “How have we despised your name?”

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own brothers and sisters, my own flesh and blood.

Romans 1:3

the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh

Acts 2:30

Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would put one of his descendants on his throne.

Luke 18:2

He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people.

Luke 18:4

For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone,

Revelation 22:6

And he said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true, for the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place.”

Isaiah 45:10

Woe to anyone who says to a father, “What are you fathering?” or to a woman, “With what are you in labor?”