Hebrews 12:3-5

New Testament for Everyone

³ He put up with enormous opposition from sinners. Weigh up in your minds just how severe it was; then you won’t find yourselves getting weary and worn out.

Christian suffering is God’s discipline

⁴ You have been struggling against sin, but your resistance hasn’t yet cost you any blood. ⁵ And perhaps you have forgotten the word of exhortation which speaks to you as God’s children: