Hebrews 12:7

If ye patiently endure correction, God carries himself towards you as his children: for who is the son whom the father doth not correct?

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”

8If then ye are without correction, of which all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not 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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