Hebrews 12:7
Good News Translation
Endure what you suffer as being a father's punishment; your suffering shows that God is treating you as his children. Was there ever a child who was not punished by his father?

New Revised Standard Version
Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children; for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline?

Contemporary English Version
Be patient when you are being corrected! This is how God treats his children. Don't all parents correct their children?

New American Bible
Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct?

endure.

Job 34:31,32 Seeing then I have spoken of God, I will not hinder thee in thy turn. . . .

Proverbs 19:18 Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.

Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

Proverbs 23:13,14 Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. . . .

Proverbs 29:15,17 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame. . . .

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

for what.

1 Samuel 2:29,34 Why have you kicked away my victims, and my gifts which I commanded to be offered in the temple: and thou hast rather honoured thy sons than me, to eat the firstfruits of every sacrifice of my people Israel? . . .

1 Samuel 3:13 For I have foretold unto him, that I will judge his house for ever, for iniquity, because he knew that his sons did wickedly, and did not chastise them.

1 Kings 1:6 Neither did his father rebuke him at any time, saying: Why hast thou done this? And he also was very beautiful, the next in birth after Absalom.

1 Kings 2:24,25 And now, as the Lord liveth, who hath established me, and placed me upon the throne of David, my father, and who hath made me a house, as he promised, Adonias shall be put to death this day. . . .

Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes.

Proverbs 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame.

Context
God Disciplines His Sons
6For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct? 8But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards and not sons.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:5
That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.

2 Samuel 7:14
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes.

Proverbs 19:18
Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.

Proverbs 23:13
Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.

1 Corinthians 11:32
But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

Hebrews 12:6
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