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Hebrews 12:7

WEB

7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

KJV

7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

BSB

7[+] Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

FBV

7Be patient as you experience God's discipline because he is treating you as his children. What child doesn't experience a father's discipline?

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Extra References

Proverbs 19:18

18Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.


Deuteronomy 8:5

5You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.


Proverbs 13:24

24One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.


Proverbs 29:15

15The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.


Proverbs 29:17

17Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.


Proverbs 23:13-14

13Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. 14Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.


2 Samuel 7:14

14I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men;


Job 34:31-32

31For has any said to God, I am guilty, but I will not offend any more. 32Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?


1 Kings 2:24-25

24Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has established me and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”

25King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.


1 Samuel 3:13

13For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.