Add parallel Print Page Options

For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”[a]

Endure your suffering[b] as discipline;[c] God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline? But if you do not experience discipline,[d] something all sons[e] have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:6 sn A quotation from Prov 3:11-12.
  2. Hebrews 12:7 tn Grk “endure,” with the object (“your suffering”) understood from the context.
  3. Hebrews 12:7 tn Or “in order to become disciplined.”
  4. Hebrews 12:8 tn Grk “you are without discipline.”
  5. Hebrews 12:8 tn Grk “all”; “sons” is implied by the context.