Hebrews 12:7 “Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what…”

Hebrews 12:7

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?

Geneva Bible 1599

If ye endure chastening, God offereth him selfe vnto you as vnto sonnes: for what sonne is it whom the father chasteneth not?

Darby Translation

Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?

Young's Literal Translation

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

Bible in Basic English

It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

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Cross references

“endure”

Proverbs 19:18 Proverbs 29:15 Proverbs 29:17 Proverbs 22:15 Acts 14:22 Job 34:31

Proverbs 19:18 · BSB

Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.

Proverbs 29:15 · BSB

A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

Proverbs 29:17 · BSB

Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.

Proverbs 22:15 · BSB

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Acts 14:22 · BSB

strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

Job 34:31 · BSB

Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.

“for what”

Proverbs 13:24 1 Samuel 3:13 1 Samuel 2:29 1 Samuel 2:34 1 Kings 1:6 1 Kings 2:24

Proverbs 13:24 · BSB

He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

1 Samuel 3:13 · BSB

I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.

1 Samuel 2:29 · BSB

Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’

1 Samuel 2:34 · BSB

And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.

1 Kings 1:6 · BSB

(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)

1 Kings 2:24 · BSB

And now, as surely as the LORD lives—the One who established me, who set me on the throne of my father David, and who founded for me a dynasty as He promised—surely Adonijah shall be put to death today!”

Also

Deuteronomy 8:5 2 Samuel 7:14

Deuteronomy 8:5 · BSB

So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

2 Samuel 7:14 · BSB

I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”

8If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

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