Hebrews 12:5-11

Darby Translation

⁵ And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not [the] chastening of [the] Lord, nor faint [when] reproved by him;

⁶ for whom [the] Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.

⁷ Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?

⁸ But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

⁹ Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced [them]; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

¹⁰ For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness.

¹¹ But no chastening at the time seems to be [matter] of joy, but of grief; but afterwards yields [the] peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.