Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
And they fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
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!
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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.
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
“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, 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, 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.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne,
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