Hebrews 12:6

The Lord disciplines everyone he loves, and he punishes everyone he welcomes as his child.”

Free Bible Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Have 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.

7Be patient as you experience God's discipline because he is treating you as his children. What child doesn't experience a father's discipline?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:5So you should realize that just as a parent disciplines their child, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

2 Samuel 7:14I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to me. If he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod like people do, like a parent punishing a child.

Psalms 73:14I'm cursed with suffering all day long; every morning I'm punished.

Psalms 94:12Those you discipline are happy, Lord; those you teach from your Law.

Psalms 119:75Lord, I know that what you decide is right; you brought me down in order to help me because you are trustworthy.

Proverbs 13:24People who don't discipline their children hate them. Those who love their children carefully discipline them.

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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