Hebrews 12:7

Therefore endure ye the chastisement; because God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there, whom his father chasteneth not?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 chasteneth; and he scourgeth those sons, for whom he hath kind regards.

8But if ye are without that chastisement, with which every one is chastened, ye are become strangers and not sons.

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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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