Hebrews 12:7
Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6for whom [the] Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:29Wherefore do ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon mine oblation which I have commanded [in my] habitation? And thou honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the primest of all the oblations of Israel my people.
1 Samuel 3:13For I have declared to him that I will judge his house for ever, for the iniquity which he hath known: because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
1 Kings 1:6And his father had not grieved him at any time in saying, Why doest thou so? and he was also a very comely man; and [his mother] bore him after Absalom.
Job 34:31For hath he said unto God, I bear [chastisement], I will not offend;
Proverbs 19:18Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; but set not thy soul upon killing him.
Proverbs 23:13Withhold not correction from the child; for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall 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 →