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For the Lord disciplines those he loves,
    and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”[a]

As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father? If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:5-6 Prov 3:11-12 (Greek version).

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