Hebrews 12:9

Modern English Version

Furthermore, we have had human fathers, and they corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

Cross References

Job 12:10

in whose hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of all mankind?

Exodus 20:12

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

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley will pluck it out, and the young vultures will eat it.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Isaiah 38:16

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

Isaiah 42:5

Thus says God the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and that which comes out of it, who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk in it:

Isaiah 45:10

Woe to him who says to his father, “What are you begetting?” Or to the woman, “To what are you giving birth?”

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before Me, and the souls whom I have made.

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have treated father and mother with contempt. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they have vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Leviticus 19:3

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you will keep My Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Zechariah 12:1

The oracle of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, the One who stretches out the heavens and establishes the earth and forms the spirit of man within him:

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My fear? says the Lord of Hosts to you, O priests, who despise My name. But you say, “How have we despised Your name?”

Numbers 16:22

They fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin and You will be angry with all the assembly?”

Numbers 27:16

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the assembly

Luke 18:2

He said: “In a city there was a judge who did not fear God or regard man.

Luke 18:4

“He would not for a while. Yet afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I do not fear God or respect man,

John 3:6

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Acts 2:30

But being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of his seed according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

Romans 1:3

concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen by race,

Romans 9:5

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

Deuteronomy 27:16

“Cursed is he who disrespects his father or his mother.” And all the people shall say, “Amen.”

James 4:10

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

James 4:7

Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

1 Peter 5:6

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

Revelation 22:6

The angel said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show to His servants the things which must soon take place.”