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?
Fathers
Corrected
We gave
Shall we not
The father
General references
Bible References
Fathers
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
Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of his descendants, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
Romans 1:3
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was made of the descendants of David according to the flesh;
Romans 9:3
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Corrected
Hebrews 12:7
If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
We gave
Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Leviticus 19:3
You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.
Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they made light of father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Shall we not
Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, How have we despised your name?
James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
The father
Numbers 16:22
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
Numbers 27:16
Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
Job 12:10
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Isaiah 42:5
Thus says God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk in it:
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
Zechariah 12:1
The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel, says the LORD, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.
General references
Deuteronomy 4:22
But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but you shall go over, and possess that good land.
Psalm 89:32
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Isaiah 45:10
Woe unto him that says unto his father, What do you beget? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?