Hebrews 12:5-11 ▼

5 You have also forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons: “My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him;

6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges.”

7 Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?

8 If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards.

9 Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not [then] submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?

10 They disciplined us for a short time as seemed right to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we may share his holiness.

11 At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.