Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

For he was still in his ancestor Abraham’s loins when Melchizedek met him.

“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,

By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”? And in another place he says, “I will be his father and he will be my son.”

“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.