Hebrews 12:7
Be 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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6The Lord disciplines everyone he loves, and he punishes everyone he welcomes as his child.”
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:29So why have you treated with contempt my sacrifices and offerings that I have ordered for my place of worship? You honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves with the best parts of all the offerings from my people Israel.
1 Samuel 3:13I told him that I will judge his family forever because of the sins he knows about, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not try and stop them.
1 Kings 1:6(Never in his life had his father corrected him. He'd never asked him, “Why did you do that?” He was also very good-looking, and had been born after Absalom.)
Job 34:31If you were to say to God, ‘I have sinned, but I won't do bad things any more.
Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son while there's still hope, but don't kill him.
Proverbs 23:13Don't keep from disciplining your children—a beating won't kill 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 →