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and you have forgotten the encouragement that addresses you as sons and daughters:

My child, don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline
    or give up when you are corrected by him,
because the Lord disciplines whomever he loves,
        and he punishes every son or daughter whom he accepts.[a]

Bear hardship for the sake of discipline. God is treating you like sons and daughters! What child isn’t disciplined by his or her father?

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