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.


In Context

7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

10 For 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.

11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

12 Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble 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 English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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.

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 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.