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Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!

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In The King James Version

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?

In Context

8But if you are without discipline, which all people share in, then you are illegitimate and not his sons.

10Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best. But God disciplines us for our good, so that we can share in his holiness.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:12Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.

Numbers 16:22Moses and Aaron lay facedown and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all humanity, if one man sins, must you be angry with all the community?”

Deuteronomy 21:18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, even though they correct him, will not listen to them;

Job 12:10In his hand is the life of every living thing 1 and the breath of all mankind. 1

Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the earth where it came from, 2 and the spirit returns to God who gave it. 1

Isaiah 42:5This is what God Yahweh says— 1 the one who created the heavens and stretched them out, the one who made the earth and all that it produces, 1 the one who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who live on it: 1

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 →

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