Hebrews 12:7

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons: for what son is there whose father chastens him not?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

In Context

6For, whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son that he receives.

8But if you are without chastisement, of which all are par takers, then are you bastards, and not sons.

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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 →

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