Hebrews 12:5
and you have forgotten the exhortation that speaks fully to you as to sons, “My son, do not despise [the] discipline of [the] LORD, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,
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In Context
4You did not yet resist to blood—striving with sin;
6for whom the LORD loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives”;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:9Only, take heed to yourself, and watch your soul exceedingly, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all [the] days of your life; and you have made them known to your sons and to your sons’ sons.
2 Samuel 6:7and the anger of YHWH burns against Uzzah, and God strikes him there for the error, and he dies there by the Ark of God.
1 Chronicles 15:12and says to them, “You [are] heads of the fathers of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brothers, and you have brought up the Ark of YHWH, God of Israel, to [the place] I have prepared for it;
Job 34:31For has any said to God: I have taken away, || I do not do corruptly,
Psalms 94:12O the blessedness of the man || Whom You instruct, O YAH, || And teach him out of Your law,
Psalms 119:16I delight myself in Your statutes, || I do not forget Your word.
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 →