Hebrews 12:5-11

21st Century King James Version

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 by 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 chasteneth not?

⁸ But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all arepartakers, then ye are bastards and not sons.

⁹ Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not far rather be in subjection unto the Father of Spirits, and live?

¹⁰ For verily they chastened us for a few days according to their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.

¹¹ Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto those who are exercised thereby.