Hebrews 12:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not [then] submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?

Cross References

Job 12:10

In his hand is the soul of every living thing, and the life breath of all mortal flesh.

Exodus 20:12

Honor your father and your mother, that you may have a long life in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father, or scorns the homage due a mother, Will be plucked out by brook ravens; devoured by a brood of vultures.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Isaiah 38:16

Those live whom the Lord protects; yours is the life of my spirit. You have given me health and restored my life!

Isaiah 42:5

Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its produce, Who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk on it:

Isaiah 45:10

Woe to anyone who asks a father, “What are you begetting?” or a woman, “What are you giving birth to?”

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not accuse forever, nor always be angry; For without me their spirit fails, the life breath that I have given.

Ezekiel 22:7

Within you, father and mother are dishonored; they extort the resident alien in your midst; within you, they oppress orphans and widows.

Leviticus 19:3

Each of you revere your mother and father, and keep my sabbaths. I, the Lord, am your God.

Zechariah 12:1

An oracle: The word of the Lord concerning Israel—oracle of the Lord, who spreads out the heavens, lays the foundations of the earth, and fashions the human spirit within:

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father, and a servant fears his master; If, then, I am a father, where is the honor due to me? And if I am a master, where is the fear due to me? So says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who disdain my name. But you ask, “How have we disdained your name?”

Numbers 16:22

But they fell prostrate and exclaimed, “O God, God of the spirits of all living creatures, if one man sins will you be angry with the whole community?”

Numbers 27:16

“May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humanity, set over the community someone

Luke 18:2

“There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being.

Luke 18:4

For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being,

John 3:6

What is born of flesh is flesh and what is born of spirit is spirit.

Acts 2:30

But since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne,

Romans 1:3

the gospel about his Son, descended from David according to the flesh,

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and separated from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kin according to the flesh.

Romans 9:5

theirs the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, is the Messiah. God who is over all be blessed forever. Amen. God’s Free Choice.

Deuteronomy 27:16

“Cursed be anyone who dishonors father or mother!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!”

James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

James 4:7

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

1 Peter 5:6

So humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.

Revelation 22:6

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