Hebrews 12:6

For the Lord disciplines everyone whom he loves, 1 and he punishes every son whom he receives.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5and you have forgotten the encouragement that instructs you as sons: 1 “My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's discipline, 1 nor grow weary when you are corrected by him.” 1

7Endure suffering as discipline. God deals with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:5You will think about in your heart, how, as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

2 Samuel 7:14I will be a father to him, and he will be my son. When he sins, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the whipping of the sons of men.

Psalms 73:14For all the day long I have been afflicted 1 and disciplined every morning. 1

Psalms 94:12Blessed is the one whom you instruct, Yahweh, 1 the one whom you teach from your law. 1

Psalms 119:75I know, Yahweh, that your decrees are just, 1 and that in faithfulness you afflicted me. 1

Proverbs 13:24The one who does not discipline his son hates him, 1 but one who loves his son is careful to instruct him. 1

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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