Hebrews 12:3-13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

³ Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners,^[a] so that you may not grow weary in your souls or lose heart.^{(A) 4} In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. ⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as children—

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?^{(D) 8} If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.^{(E) 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.^{(F) 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.^(G)

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