⁷ Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children, for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline?^{(A) 8} If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.^{(B) 9} Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live? ¹⁰ For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share his holiness.^{(C) 11} Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.^(D)

¹² Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees^{(E) 13} and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.^(F)