Hebrews 12:7
Endure 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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In Context
6For the Lord disciplines everyone whom he loves, 1 and he punishes every son whom he receives.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:29Why, then, do you scorn my sacrifices and offerings that I required in the place where I live? Why do you honor your sons above me by making yourselves fat with the best of every offering of my people Israel?'
1 Samuel 3:13I have told him that I am about to judge his house once for all for the sin that he knew about, because his sons brought a curse upon themselves and he did not stop them.
1 Kings 1:6His father had never troubled him, saying, “Why have you done this or that?” Adonijah was also a very handsome man, born next after Absalom.
Job 34:31Suppose someone says to God, 1 'I am certainly guilty, but I will not sin any longer; 1
Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son while there is hope 1 and do not set your desire on putting him to death. 1
Proverbs 23:13Do not withhold instruction from a child, 1 for if you discipline him, he will not die. 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 →