Hebrews 12:7
Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:29Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
1 Samuel 3:13I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
1 Kings 1:6(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)
Job 34:31Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.
Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.
Proverbs 23:13Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a 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 →