Hebrews 12:4-11
New American Standard Bible 1995
A Father’s Discipline
4 (A)You have not yet resisted [a](B)to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
“(C)My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor (D)faint when you are reproved by Him;
6 (E)For those (F)whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He scourges every son whom He receives.”
7 It is for discipline that you endure; (G)God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, (H)of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we had [b]earthly fathers to discipline us, and we (I)respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to (J)the Father of [c]spirits, and (K)live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, (L)so that we may share His holiness. 11 All discipline (M)for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the (N)peaceful fruit of righteousness.
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- Hebrews 12:4 Lit as far as blood
- Hebrews 12:9 Lit fathers of our flesh
- Hebrews 12:9 Or our spirits
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