Hebrews 12:7-13

Revised Geneva Translation

⁷ If you endure chastening, God offered Himself to you as to sons. For what son is it whom the Father does not chasten?

⁸ Therefore, if you are without correction - of which all are partakers - then you are bastards, and not sons.

⁹ Moreover, we have had the fathers of our bodies who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Should we not be in all the more subjection to the Father of Spirits, in order that we might live?

¹⁰ For indeed they chastened us for a few days, as it pleased them. But He chastened us for our profit, so that we might be partakers of His holiness.

¹¹ Now, no chastising seems joyous at the time, but grievous. Yet afterward, it brings the quiet fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.

¹² Therefore, lift up your hands which hang down, and your weak knees,

¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is halting is not turned out of the way. But rather, let it be healed.