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For the Lord[a] disciplines the one he loves,
    and he punishes[b] every son he accepts.”[c]

What you endure disciplines you: God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline? Now if you are without any discipline, in which all sons share, then you are illegitimate and not God’s[d] sons.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:6 MT source citation reads Lord
  2. Hebrews 12:6 Or whips
  3. Hebrews 12:6 Cf. Prov 3:11-12
  4. Hebrews 12:8 Lit. his