Hebrews 12:4–11

⁴Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin: ⁵and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons,

My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord,

Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;

⁶For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,

And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

⁷It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not? ⁸But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. ⁹Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? ¹⁰For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.