If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline(A)—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

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because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,(A)
    and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:6 Prov. 3:11,12 (see Septuagint)

Resist him,(A) standing firm in the faith,(B) because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.(C)

10 And the God of all grace, who called you(D) to his eternal glory(E) in Christ, after you have suffered a little while,(F) will himself restore you and make you strong,(G) firm and steadfast.

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14 All day long I have been afflicted,(A)
    and every morning brings new punishments.

15 If I had spoken out like that,
    I would have betrayed your children.

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BOOK III

Psalms 73–89

Psalm 73

A psalm of Asaph.

Surely God is good to Israel,
    to those who are pure in heart.(A)

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