Hebrews 12:7
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons: for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
8But if ye are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:29Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honorest 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 knoweth: because his sons made themselves vile, 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 also was a very goodly man ; and his mother bore him after Absalom.
Job 34:31Surely it is meet to be said to God, I have borne chastisement , I will not offend any more :
Proverbs 19:18Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Proverbs 23:13Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest 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 →