Hebrews 12:4–11

⁴For you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

⁵And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him.

⁶For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

⁷Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct?

⁸But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards and not sons.

⁹Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and we reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and live?

¹⁰And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.

¹¹Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are exercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice.