Hebrews 12:5
Have you forgotten God's appeal to you when he reasons with you as his children? He says, “My child, don't treat the Lord's discipline lightly, and don't give up when he corrects you either.
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4Your resistance so far hasn't cost you blood as you fight against sin.
6The Lord disciplines everyone he loves, and he punishes everyone he welcomes as his child.”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:9Just make sure to be very careful, and really watch what you do, so you don't forget the things you've seen. Keep them in mind as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
2 Samuel 6:7The Lord was angry with Uzzah, and God struck him down right there for his disobedience, and he died beside the Ark of God.
1 Chronicles 15:12He told them, “You are the heads of the Levite families. You must make yourselves and your relatives ceremonially clean and pure before you bring back the Ark of God, the Lord of Israel to the place I have made for it.
Job 34:31If you were to say to God, ‘I have sinned, but I won't do bad things any more.
Psalms 94:12Those you discipline are happy, Lord; those you teach from your Law.
Psalms 119:16I will take pleasure in following your directions; I won't forget what you say.
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 →