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have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?
Context / meaning
Hebrews 11 [35.] Women received their dead by resurrection.[h] Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned.[i] They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword.[j] They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth. These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise, God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 12 [1.] Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls. You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children,
“My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when you are reproved by him;
For whom the Lord loves, he chastens,
and scourges every son whom he receives.”[a]
Hebrews 12 [7.] It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children. Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
Hebrews 12 [10.] For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby. Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, [b] and make straight paths for your feet,[c] so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Footnotes:
h. Hebrews 11:35 1 Kings 17:17-23; 2 Kings 4:32-37.
i. Hebrews 11:37 2 Chronicles 24:20-21.
j. Hebrews 11:37 Jeremiah 26:20-23; 1 Kings 19:10.
a. Hebrews 12:6 Proverbs 3:11-12.
b. Hebrews 12:12 Isaiah 35:3.
c. Hebrews 12:13 Proverbs 4:26.
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PIB Scriptures are derived from the World English Bible
Hebrews 12:5-7
Context / meaning
Hebrews 11 [35.] Women received their dead by resurrection.[h] Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned.[i] They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword.[j] They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth. These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise, God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 12 [1.] Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls. You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children,
“My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when you are reproved by him;
For whom the Lord loves, he chastens,
and scourges every son whom he receives.”[a]
Hebrews 12 [7.] It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children. Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
Hebrews 12 [10.] For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby. Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, [b] and make straight paths for your feet,[c] so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Footnotes:
h. Hebrews 11:35 1 Kings 17:17-23; 2 Kings 4:32-37.
i. Hebrews 11:37 2 Chronicles 24:20-21.
j. Hebrews 11:37 Jeremiah 26:20-23; 1 Kings 19:10.
a. Hebrews 12:6 Proverbs 3:11-12.
b. Hebrews 12:12 Isaiah 35:3.
c. Hebrews 12:13 Proverbs 4:26.
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