Hebrews 12:9

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

Hebrews 12:7

We gave

Ephesians 6:1

Shall we not

Malachi 1:6

James 4:7

1 Peter 5:6

The father

Zechariah 12:1

General references

Deuteronomy 4:22

Psalm 89:32

Isaiah 45:10

Bible References

Fathers

That which is born of the flesh, is flesh. And that which is born of the spirit, is spirit.

Therefore seeing he was a prophet, and knew that God had sworn with an oath to him, that the fruit of his loins should sit on his seat - in that Christ should rise again in the flesh -

that make mention of his son, the which was begotten unto him of the seed of David, as pertaining to the flesh:

For I have wished myself to be cursed from Christ, for my brethren and my kinsmen as pertaining to the flesh:

Corrected

If ye shall endure chastening, God offereth himself unto you, as unto sons. What son is that whom the father chasteneth not?

We gave

"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God.

If any man have a son that is stubborn, and disobedient, that he will not hearken unto the voice of his father and voice of his mother, and they have taught him nurture, but he would not hearken unto them:

"'Cursed be he that curseth his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Whoso laugheth his father to scorn, and setteth his mother's commandment at naught; the ravens pick out his eyes in the valley, and devoured be he of the young Eagles.

In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.

Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

Shall we not

"Should not a son honour his father, and a servant his master? If I be now a father, where is mine honour? If I be the LORD, where am I feared? sayeth the LORD of Hosts, now, to you priests that despise my name. And if ye say, 'Wherein have we despised thy name?'

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

Submit yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you, when the time is come.

The father

And they fell upon their faces, and said, "O most mighty God of the spirits of all flesh; one man hath sinned, and wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude?"

"Let the LORD, God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation;

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all men.

Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.

For thus sayeth God the LORD unto him, even he that made the heavens, and spread them abroad, and set forth the earth with her increase: which giveth breath unto the people that is in it, and to them that dwell therein,

For I chide not ever, and am not wroth without end. But the blasting goeth from me, though I make the breath.

The heavy burden which the LORD hath devised for Israel. Thus sayeth the LORD, which spread the heavens abroad, laid the foundation of the earth, and giveth man the breath of life,

General references

For I must die in this land, and shall not go over Jordan: But ye shall go over and conquer that good land.

I will visit their offenses with the rod, and their sins with scourges.

Woe be unto him that sayeth to his father, "Why begettest thou?" And to his mother, "Why bearest thou?"