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Hebrews 12:7

It is for your discipline that you have to endure all this. God is dealing with you as his children. For where is there a child whom his father does not discipline?

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In The King James Version

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

In Context

6For it is him whom he loves that he disciplines, and he chastises every child whom he acknowledges.’

8If you are left without that discipline, in which all children share, it shows that you are bastards, and not true children.

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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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