10For they verily for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.


In Context

7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?

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

9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

10 For they verily for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous, but grievous: yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.

12 Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

Hebrews 12:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:10For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:10Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:10And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:10For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:10For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:10For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:10for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:10For they truly for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.