Hebrews 12:7
Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6For whom Lord loves he chastens. And he whips every son whom he receives.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:29Why do ye kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people?
1 Samuel 3:13For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse upon themselves, and he did not restrain them.
1 Kings 1:6And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have thou done so? And he was also a very handsome man. And he was born after Absalom.
Job 34:31For has any said to God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more].
Proverbs 19:18Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Proverbs 23:13Withhold not correction from the child, [for] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:5-18
The Benefit of Afflictions; The Use of Afflictions; Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father… Read the whole commentary →