Hebrews 12:6

For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

In Context

5And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;

7It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:5Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.

2 Samuel 7:14I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;

Psalms 73:14For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

Psalms 94:12Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

Psalms 119:75I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.

Proverbs 13:24He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

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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