9Furthermore 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?
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And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-17)Here the apostle presses the exhortation to patience and perseverance by an argument taken from the gentle measure and gracious nature of those sufferings which the believing Hebrews endured in their Christian course. I. From the gentle and moderate degree and measure of their sufferings: You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin , Heb. 12:4. Observe, 1. He owns that they had suff…
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