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Hebrews 12:5-11 (GN)

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⁵ Have you forgotten the encouraging words which God speaks to you as his children? "My child, pay attention when the Lord corrects you, and do not be discouraged when he rebukes you. ⁶ Because the Lord corrects everyone he loves, and punishes everyone he accepts as a child." ⁷ Endure what you suffer as being a father's punishment; your suffering shows that God is treating you as his children. Was there ever a child who was not punished by his father? ⁸ If you are not punished, as all his children are, it means you are not real children, but bastards. ⁹ In the case of our human fathers, they punished us and we respected them. How much more, then, should we submit to our spiritual Father and live! ¹⁰ Our human fathers punished us for a short time, as it seemed right to them; but God does it for our own good, so that we may share his holiness. ¹¹ When we are punished, it seems to us at the time something to make us sad, not glad. Later, however, those who have been disciplined by such punishment reap the peaceful reward of a righteous life.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 7) Discipling / Correction - Endure hardship as discipline
(v. 7) Suffering / Hardship - Endure hardship as discipline

This passage relates to the following question(s):
(v. 6) Is the Christian yoke easy or difficult? He punishes everyone he accepts as a son

This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 5) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 5) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 5) Wild at Heart - False self (part 2) (2009-09-11)
(v. 5) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 5) Daughter Needs - Pushover Papa (2011-08-10)
(v. 5) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 5) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 6) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 6) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 6) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 6) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 6) Daughter Needs - Pushover Papa (2011-08-10)
(v. 6) Fearing God - Respect for His Discipline (2011-05-29)
(v. 6) Genesis 8 - The Flood (part III) (2011-10-08)
(v. 6) Wild at Heart - False self (part 2) (2009-09-11)
(v. 6) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 7) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 7) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 7) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 7) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 7) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 8) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 8) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 8) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 8) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 8) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 9) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 9) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 9) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 9) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 9) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 9) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(v. 10) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 10) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(v. 10) Promises of God - Produces a Harvest (2009-03-18)
(v. 10) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 10) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 10) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 10) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 11) Followup - Laziness (part II) (2011-01-23)
(v. 11) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 11) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 11) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 11) Fear of Failure - No Discipline Seems Pleasant (2012-02-28)
(v. 11) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 11) Promises of God - Produces a Harvest (2009-03-18)
(v. 11) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)