For it was appropriate that he who is the great First Cause of the universe should, in guiding his many children to his glorious salvation, make their leader in it fully qualified through what he suffered.

And who was it to whom God made oath that they should not be admitted to his Rest, if it was not to those who had disobeyed him?

And why should I go on? For my time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

When our earthly fathers disciplined us we treated them with respect; should we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so have life?

Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.