Hebrews 12:9
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9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to (A)the Father of spirits (B)and live?
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Numbers 16:22
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22 And they (A)fell on their faces and said, “O God, (B)the God of the spirits of all flesh, (C)shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
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Numbers 27:16
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16 “Let the Lord, (A)the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
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Isaiah 42:5
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5 Thus says God, the Lord,
who created the heavens (A)and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
(B)who gives breath to the people on it
and spirit to those who walk in it:
John 3:6
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6 (A)That which is born of the flesh is (B)flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.[a]
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- John 3:6 The same Greek word means both wind and spirit
Job 12:10
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10 In (A)his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of all mankind.
Zechariah 12:1
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The Lord Will Give Salvation
12 (A)The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, (B)who stretched out the heavens and (C)founded the earth and (D)formed the spirit of man within him:
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Isaiah 38:16
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16 (A)O Lord, by these things men live,
and in all these is the life of my spirit.
Oh restore me to health and make me live!
Exodus 20:12
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12 (A)“Honor your father and your mother, (B)that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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1 Peter 5:6
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6 (A)Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
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James 4:7
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7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. (A)Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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Isaiah 57:16
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16 (A)For I will not contend forever,
nor will I always be angry;
for the spirit would grow faint before me,
and the breath of life that I made.
Leviticus 19:3
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3 (A)Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and (B)you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
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Ephesians 6:1-4
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Children and Parents
6 (A)Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 (B)“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, (C)but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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Romans 9:5
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5 To them belong (A)the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, (B)who is God over all, (C)blessed forever. Amen.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
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7 and (A)the dust returns to the earth as it was, and (B)the spirit returns to God (C)who gave it.
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Proverbs 30:17
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17 The eye that (A)mocks a father
and (B)scorns to obey a mother
will (C)be picked out by (D)the ravens of the valley
and eaten by the vultures.
Deuteronomy 27:16
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16 (A)“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
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Deuteronomy 21:18-21
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A Rebellious Son
18 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, 20 and they shall say to 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 (A)Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. (B)So you shall purge the evil from your midst, (C)and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
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James 4:10
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10 (A)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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Malachi 1:6
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The Priests' Polluted Offerings
6 (A)“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am (B)a father, where is my honor? And if I am (C)a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. (D)But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
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Ezekiel 22:7
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7 Father and mother (A)are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner (B)suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow (C)are wronged in you.
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Romans 9:3
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3 For (A)I could wish that I myself were (B)accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers,[a] my kinsmen (C)according to the flesh.
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- Romans 9:3 Or brothers and sisters
Romans 1:3
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3 concerning his Son, (A)who was descended from David[a] (B)according to the flesh
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- Romans 1:3 Or who came from the offspring of David
Acts 2:30
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30 (A)Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that (B)God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne,
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