Hebrews 12:9
For if we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn't we even more be subject to the discipline of our spiritual Father which leads to life?
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Exodus 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Numbers 16:22But Moses and Aaron fell facedown on the ground said, “God—God of everything that lives—when it's only one man who sins, must you be angry with everybody?”
Deuteronomy 21:18If someone has an obstinate and rebellious son who doesn't obey his parents and doesn't obey them even when he's punished,
Job 12:10He gives life to every living thing, life to all humankind.
Ecclesiastes 12:7Then the dust returns to the earth from which it came, and the breath of life returns to God who gave it.
Isaiah 42:5This is what God the Lord says, the one who created the heavens and stretched them out, who made the earth and everything in it, who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live there:
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:5-18
The Benefit of Afflictions; The Use of Afflictions; Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father… Read the whole commentary →