Hebrews 12:7
if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:29Why do ye kick at My sacrifice, and at Mine offering which I commanded [in] My habitation, and dost honour thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people?
1 Samuel 3:13and I have declared to him that I am judging his house — to the age, for the iniquity which he hath known, for his sons are making themselves vile, and he hath not restrained them,
1 Kings 1:6and his father hath not grieved him [all] his days, saying, 'Wherefore thus hast thou done?' and he also [is] of a very good form, and [his mother] bare him after Absalom.
Job 34:31For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,
Proverbs 19:18Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.
Proverbs 23:13Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.
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 →