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Hebrews 12:5-14 (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. ¹² Lift up your tired hands, then, and strengthen your trembling knees! ¹³ Keep walking on straight paths, so that the lame foot may not be disabled, but instead be healed. ¹⁴ Try to be at peace with everyone, and try to live a holy life, because no one will see the Lord without it.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 7) Discipling / Correction - Endure hardship as discipline
(v. 7) Suffering / Hardship - Endure hardship as discipline
(v. 14) Peace - Make every effort to live in peace

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) Wild at Heart - False self (part 2) (2009-09-11)
(v. 5) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 5) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 5) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 5) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 5) Daughter Needs - Pushover Papa (2011-08-10)
(v. 6) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 6) Wild at Heart - False self (part 2) (2009-09-11)
(v. 6) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 6) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 6) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 6) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 6) Daughter Needs - Pushover Papa (2011-08-10)
(v. 6) Genesis 8 - The Flood (part III) (2011-10-08)
(v. 6) Fearing God - Respect for His Discipline (2011-05-29)
(v. 7) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 7) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 7) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 7) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 7) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 8) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 8) God is love (2010-09-15)
(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. 8) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 9) 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 - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 9) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 9) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 10) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 10) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(v. 10) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 10) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 10) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 10) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 10) Promises of God - Produces a Harvest (2009-03-18)
(v. 11) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 11) Fear of Failure - No Discipline Seems Pleasant (2012-02-28)
(v. 11) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 11) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(v. 11) Followup - Laziness (part II) (2011-01-23)
(v. 11) Promises of God - Produces a Harvest (2009-03-18)
(v. 11) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 11) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 12) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(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. 13) Fear of Failure - No Discipline Seems Pleasant (2012-02-28)
(v. 13) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 14) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 14) One Another - Forgiving One Another (part 2) (2010-02-26)