MLV(i)
7 It is for disciplining that you endure; God is dealing with you as with sons; for what is the son whom his father is not disciplining?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, consequently, you are illegitimate and not sons.
9 Thereafter, we have indeed had the fathers of our flesh as correctors of us, and we were revering them. Will we not much rather be made subject to the Father of spirits and we will live?
10 For they indeed were disciplining us for a few days according to what did seem right to them, but he does it upon what is advantageous for us, that we may receive of his holiness.
11 Now indeed all disciplining does not seem to be a thing of joy for the present, but of sorrow; now later it gives peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised because of it.
12 Hence straighten the drooping hands and the paralyzed knees;