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) 10 For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but he does it for our benefit, so that we can share his holiness.(C)

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Footnotes

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

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