Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

God Is Dealing With You As Sons

⁷ You are enduring^[a] [your trials] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? ⁸ But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers^[b], then you are illegitimate^[c] children and not sons.

And God Is Disciplining You For Your Benefit

⁹ Furthermore, we had fathers of our flesh^[d] as discipliners and were respecting them— but shall we not much more be subject to the Father of [our] spirits and live? ¹⁰ For the ones were disciplining us for a few days according to the thing seeming good to them; but the One does so for our benefit^[e], so that we may share-in His holiness.

And His Discipline Will Yield The Fruit of Righteousness

¹¹ And all discipline for the present does not seem to be a thing of joy, but of grief— but later it yields^[f] the peaceful fruit of righteousness to the ones having been trained by it.

Therefore Straighten Up And Walk Straight Paths

¹² Therefore straighten-up^[g] the hands having been slackened^[h] and the knees having been made-feeble^[i], ¹³ and be making straight paths for your feet, in order that the lame part may not be dislocated^[j] but rather may be healed.