Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Corrected

Bible References

Fathers

John 3:6
Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Acts 2:30
Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn an oath to him to seat one of his descendants on his throne.
Romans 1:3
concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh
Romans 9:3
For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.

Corrected

Hebrews 12:7
Endure suffering as discipline: God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

We gave

Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Leviticus 19:3
“Each of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep My Sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 21:18
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him,
Deuteronomy 27:16
‘The one who dishonors his father or mother is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Proverbs 30:17
As for the eye that ridicules a father
and despises obedience to a mother,
may ravens of the valley pluck it out
and young vultures eat it.
Ezekiel 22:7
Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the foreign resident is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.
Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.

Shall we not

Malachi 1:6
“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 is your fear of Me? says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”

Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”
James 4:7
Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you at the proper time,

The father

Numbers 16:22
But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “God, God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You vent Your wrath on the whole community?”
Numbers 27:16
“May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the community
Job 12:10
The life of every living thing is in His hand,
as well as the breath of all mankind.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Isaiah 42:5
This is what God, Yahweh, says—
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
who gives breath to the people on it
and life to those who walk on it
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not accuse you forever,
and I will not always be angry;
for then the spirit would grow weak before Me,
even the breath of man, which I have made.
Zechariah 12:1
An Oracle

The word of the Lord concerning Israel.
A declaration of the Lord,
who stretched out the heavens,
laid the foundation of the earth,
and formed the spirit of man within him.

General references

Deuteronomy 4:22
I won’t be crossing the Jordan because I am going to die in this land. But you are about to cross over and take possession of this good land.
Psalm 89:32
then I will call their rebellion
to account with the rod,
their sin with blows.
Isaiah 45:10
How absurd is the one who says to his father,
‘What are you fathering?’
or to his mother,
‘What are you giving birth to?’”

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