Hebrews 12:5-11

Riverside(i) 5 and you have forgotten the encouragement which reasons with you as with sons, "My son, do not think slightingly of the discipline of the Lord and be not faint-hearted when reproved by him: 6 for whom the Lord loves he disciplines and scourges every son whom he receives as his own." 7 It is for discipline that you are enduring. God is laying it upon you as upon sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, in which all share, then you are bastards and not sons. 9 Besides, we had fathers of our flesh who disciplined us and we used to reverence them. Shall we not much more be submissive to the Father of our spirits and live? 10 For they for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may share his holiness. 11 All discipline for the time being seems not joyous but grievous, but afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have passed through its training.