^5 (A)Have you forgotten the encouraging words which God speaks to you as his children?

⁷ Endure what you suffer as being a father's punishment; your suffering shows that God is treating you as his children. Was there ever a child who was not punished by his father?

¹¹ When we are punished, it seems to us at the time something to make us sad, not glad. Later, however, those who have been disciplined by such punishment reap the peaceful reward of a righteous life.

Instructions and Warnings

^12 (A)Lift up your tired hands, then, and strengthen your trembling knees! ^13 (B)Keep walking on straight paths, so that the lame foot may not be disabled, but instead be healed.