Add parallel Print Page Options

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

God Is Treating You as His Children.[a] You have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as children:

“My son, do not scorn the discipline of the Lord
    or lose heart when you are punished by him.
For the Lord disciplines those whom he loves,
    and he chastises every son whom he acknowledges.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:5 God treats us as his sons and daughters. And the trials that we must withstand in order to make progress in the faith is another sign of this point for us. Hence, we must take heart.

God Disciplines His Children

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.(A) And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,

“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
    and do not lose heart(B) when he rebukes you,
because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,(C)
    and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”[a](D)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:6 Prov. 3:11,12 (see Septuagint)