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You must submit to [correction for the purpose of] discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons; for [a]what son is there whom his father does not discipline? Now if you are exempt from correction and without discipline, in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate children and not sons [at all]. Moreover, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we submitted and respected them [for training us]; shall we not much more willingly submit to the Father of [b]spirits, and live [by learning from His discipline]?

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:7 Or who is a son whom.
  2. Hebrews 12:9 The meaning seems to be that God is the Father of that which is spiritual as well as that which is physical.

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