Hebrews 12:9

World English Bible (2000)

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Num 16:22 : 22 They fell on their faces, and said, "God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?"
  • Exod 20:12 : 12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them; 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place; 20 and they shall tell the elders of his city, "This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard." 21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 "The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
  • Eph 6:1-4 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise: 3 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth." 4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
  • 1 Pet 5:6 : 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;
  • Num 27:16 : 16 "Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
  • Isa 38:16 : 16 Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.
  • John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  • Acts 2:30 : 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
  • Rom 1:3 : 3 concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
  • Rom 9:3 : 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
  • Rom 9:5 : 5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
  • Isa 42:5 : 5 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Job 12:10 : 10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
  • Jas 4:7 : 7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
  • Jas 4:10 : 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Heb 12:10-11
    2 verses
    83%

    10For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

    11All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

  • Heb 12:4-8
    5 verses
    81%

    4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

    5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

    6For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."

    7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

    8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

  • Eph 6:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

    5Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

  • Prov 3:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

    12for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

  • Deut 8:5
    73%

    5You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.

  • 1 Pet 1:17
    72%

    17If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

  • Deut 21:18
    71%

    18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

  • Rom 8:12-15
    4 verses
    70%

    12So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

    13For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

    14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

    15For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

  • 1 Thess 2:11
    69%

    11As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

  • 1 Cor 11:32
    69%

    32But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

  • Prov 23:13
    69%

    13Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

  • Heb 13:17
    69%

    17Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

  • Col 3:20-22
    3 verses
    69%

    20Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

    21Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

    22Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

  • Matt 23:9
    69%

    9Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

  • 1 Cor 4:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

    15For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

  • Prov 1:8
    69%

    8My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

  • Prov 13:24
    69%

    24One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

  • Prov 4:1
    69%

    1Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

  • Gal 4:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

    3So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

  • 1 Cor 9:11
    69%

    11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

  • 2 Sam 7:14
    68%

    14I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

  • Lam 5:7
    68%

    7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

  • Jas 3:9
    68%

    9With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

  • Prov 19:18
    68%

    18Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.

  • 2 Cor 7:1
    68%

    1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

  • Gal 4:7
    68%

    7So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

  • Prov 29:17
    68%

    17Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

  • Eph 6:9
    68%

    9You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

  • 1 Tim 5:1
    68%

    1Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

  • 1 Pet 1:14
    68%

    14as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

  • Heb 2:2
    67%

    2For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;

  • Job 5:17
    67%

    17"Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

  • Heb 13:7
    67%

    7Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

  • Heb 12:28
    67%

    28Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

  • Eph 6:1
    67%

    1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

  • 1 John 3:1
    67%

    1Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.