⁷ ·So hold on through your sufferings, because they are like a father’s discipline [^LPersevere in discipline]. God is treating you as ·children [or sons]. ·All children are [^LFor what child/son is not…?] disciplined by their fathers.

⁸ If you are never disciplined (and every ·child [or son] must be disciplined), you are ·not true children [^Lillegitimate and not (true) children/sons].