Hebrews 12:1–11

¹Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, ²looking to the author and perfecter of faith—Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him—did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down; ³for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.

⁴Not yet unto blood did ye resist—with the sin striving; ⁵and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, ‘My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, ⁶for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;’ ⁷if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten? ⁸and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons. ⁹Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? ¹⁰for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation; ¹¹and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it—it doth yield.