Endure suffering as discipline: God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline—which all receive[a]—then you are illegitimate children and not sons.(A) Furthermore, we had human fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn’t we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:8 Lit discipline, of which all have become participants

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