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.
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.
7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
8 If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live!
10 Our 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.
11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
12 Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees.
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.
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.
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.
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.
12:10For 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.
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.
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.
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;
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.