Hebrews 12:7
It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:29Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
1 Samuel 3:13For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse upon themselves, and he restrained them not.
1 Kings 1:6And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.
Job 34:31For hath any said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Proverbs 19:18Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; and set not thy heart on his destruction.
Proverbs 23:13Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
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 →