⁷ Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children.^(A) For what children are not disciplined by their father?

¹⁷ Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears,^(A) he could not change what he had done.

²⁴ to Jesus the mediator^(A) of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood^(B) that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.^(C)