Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

Cross References (24)

  • Numbers 16:22 (25)

    But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be

  • Numbers 27:16 (23)

    “May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

  • Isaiah 42:5 (21)

    This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offsp

  • John 3:6 (20)

    Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.

  • Job 12:10 (18)

    The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

  • Zechariah 12:1 (13)

    This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and

  • Isaiah 38:16 (10)

    O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me

  • Exodus 20:12 (10)

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

  • James 4:7 (8)

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

  • 1 Peter 5:6 (7)

    Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.

  • Isaiah 57:16 (7)

    For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the

  • Leviticus 19:3 (6)

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

  • Proverbs 30:17 (6)

    As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young

  • Deuteronomy 27:16 (5)

    ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

  • Romans 9:5 (5)

    Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of pr

  • Ecclesiastes 12:7 (4)

    before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  • Ephesians 6:1–4 (4)

    Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

  • Deuteronomy 21:18–21 (4)

    If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disc

  • Malachi 1:6 (3)

    “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where

  • James 4:10 (3)

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

  • Ezekiel 22:7 (3)

    Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the

  • Romans 9:3 (2)

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

  • Romans 1:3 (2)

    regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,

  • Acts 2:30 (2)

    But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne