⁷ ·So hold on through your sufferings, because they are like a father’s discipline [^LPersevere in discipline]. God is treating you as ·children [or sons]. ·All children are [^LFor what child/son is not…?] disciplined by their fathers. ⁸ If you are never disciplined (and every ·child [or son] must be disciplined), you are ·not true children [^Lillegitimate and not (true) children/sons]. ⁹ [Furthermore; Moreover] We have all had ·fathers [or parents] here on earth who disciplined us, and we respected them. So it is even more important that we accept discipline from ·the Father of our spirits [or our spiritual Father; or the Father of all spirit beings; 12:23; Num. 16:22] so we will have [^Ceternal or true spiritual] life.