Hebrews 12:4–11

⁴ⁱYou have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. ⁵And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:

^j“My son, do not despise the ³chastening of the Lord,

Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;

⁶For ^kwhom the Lord loves He chastens,

And scourges every son whom He receives.”

^7lIf ⁴you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what ^mson is there whom a father does not chasten? ⁸But if you are without chastening, ⁿof which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. ⁹Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to ^othe Father of spirits and live? ¹⁰For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, ^pthat we may be partakers of His holiness. ¹¹Now no ⁵chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields ^qthe peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.