Hebrews 12:10
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
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Leviticus 19:2Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
Psalms 17:15As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Ephesians 4:24And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Colossians 1:22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight:
Hebrews 12:5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh to you as to children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked by him:
1 Peter 2:5Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
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 →