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Hebrews 12:3-12 (NASB)

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³ For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. ⁴ You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; ⁵ and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, "MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM; ⁶ FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES." ⁷ It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? ⁸ But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. ⁹ Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. ¹¹ All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. ¹² Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 3) Patience / Perseverance / Standing Firm - Consider him who endured such opposition so you will not grow weary and lose heart
(v. 3) Persecution - Consider him who endured such opposition so you will not grow weary and lose heart
(v. 4) Sin / Wickedness / Satan - Struggle against sin, you have not resisted to shedding your blood
(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. 3) 30 Days at the Cross - Not Surprise by Joy (2008-08-22)
(v. 3) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 3) Why We Need Jesus - He Guides Us By His Words and Actions (2009-04-28)
(v. 4) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 4) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 5) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 5) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 5) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 5) Daughter Needs - Pushover Papa (2011-08-10)
(v. 5) Wild at Heart - False self (part 2) (2009-09-11)
(v. 5) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 5) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 6) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 6) Wild at Heart - False self (part 2) (2009-09-11)
(v. 6) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 6) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 6) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 6) Fearing God - Respect for His Discipline (2011-05-29)
(v. 6) Daughter Needs - Pushover Papa (2011-08-10)
(v. 6) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 6) Genesis 8 - The Flood (part III) (2011-10-08)
(v. 7) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 7) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 7) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 7) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 7) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 8) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 8) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 8) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 8) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 8) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 9) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(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) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 9) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 10) Promises of God - Produces a Harvest (2009-03-18)
(v. 10) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 10) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 10) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 10) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 10) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 10) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(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) Followup - Laziness (part II) (2011-01-23)
(v. 11) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(v. 11) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 11) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 11) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 11) Promises of God - Produces a Harvest (2009-03-18)
(v. 12) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 12) Fear of Failure - No Discipline Seems Pleasant (2012-02-28)
(v. 12) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)