Hebrews 12:9

New English Translation

Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

Cross References

Job 12:10

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother – the ravens of the valley will peck 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’s breath returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 38:16

O sovereign master, your decrees can give men life; may years of life be restored to me. Restore my health and preserve my life.’

Isaiah 42:5

This is what the true God, the Lord, says – the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it:

Isaiah 45:10

Danger awaits one who says to his father, “What in the world are you fathering?” and to his mother, “What in the world are you bringing forth?”

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.

Ezekiel 22:7

They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

Leviticus 19:3

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Zechariah 12:1

The revelation of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: The Lord – he who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, who forms the human spirit within a person – says,

Malachi 1:6

“A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The Lord who rules over all asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply, ‘How have we made light of your name?’

Numbers 16:22

Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”

Numbers 27:16

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humankind, appoint a man over the community,

Luke 18:2

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

Luke 18:4

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

John 3:6

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

Acts 2:30

So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

Romans 1:3

concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

Romans 9:5

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

Deuteronomy 27:16

‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

James 4:7

So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you.

1 Peter 5:6

And God will exalt you in due time, if you humble yourselves under his mighty hand

Revelation 22:6

Then the angel said to me, “These words are reliable and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must happen soon.”