Hebrews 12:5-11 ▼

5 and you? have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you? as to sons: “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint being reproved by Him.

6 For the Lord disciplines whom He loves, and He scourges every son whom He receives.”

7 It is for discipline that you? endure; God is treating you? as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

8 But if you? are without discipline, of which they have all become partakers, then you? are illegitimate children and not sons.

9 Furthermore indeed, we have had fathers of our flesh, discipliners, and we respected them; and will we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits and will live?

10 For indeed, for a few days according to that seeming good to them, they were disciplining us—but He for our benefitting, in order to share His holiness.

11 And all discipline indeed for the present does not seem to be of joy, but of grief; but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those having been trained by it.