Hebrews 12:5–14

⁵And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when reproved by him; ⁶for whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives. ⁷Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not? ⁸But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. ⁹Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? ¹⁰For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness. ¹¹But no chastening at the time seems to be matter of joy, but of grief; but afterwards yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it. ¹²Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the failing knees; ¹³and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed. ¹⁴Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord: