Hebrews 12:7
if you endure discipline, God bears Himself to you as to sons, for who is a son whom a father does not discipline?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6for whom the LORD loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives”;
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:29Why do you kick at My sacrifice and at My offering, which I commanded [in] My habitation, and honor your sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people?
1 Samuel 3:13and I have declared to him that I am judging his house for all time, for the iniquity which he has known, for his sons are making themselves vile, and he has not restrained them,
1 Kings 1:6and his father has not grieved him [all] his days, saying, “Why have you done this?” And he also [is] of a very good form, and [his mother] bore him after Absalom.
Job 34:31For has any said to God: I have taken away, || I do not do corruptly,
Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son, for there is hope, || And do not lift up your soul to put him to death.
Proverbs 23:13Do not withhold discipline from a youth, || When you strike him with a rod he does 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 →