⁹ 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?

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?

¹² "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

³ "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

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 shall you put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

¹⁶ Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.

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.

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:

⁶ Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

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.

⁶ That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

¹⁶ Lord, by these things men live; Wholly therein is the life of my spirit: You restore me, and cause me to live.

¹⁶ Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

⁷ And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.

⁵ Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk therein:

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.

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.

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 Hosts to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'

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,

³ concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

³ For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

⁵ of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

⁷ Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

¹⁰ In whose hand is the life of every living thing, The breath of all mankind?