[a]And ye have forgotten the consolation, which speaketh unto you as unto children, (A)My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither faint when thou art rebuked of him.

For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth: and he scourgeth every son that he receiveth.

If ye endure chastening, God offered himself unto you as unto sons: for what son is it whom the father chasteneth not?

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:5 Secondly, because they are testimony of his fatherly good will toward us, insomuch that they show themselves to be bastards, which cannot abide to be chastened of God.

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