Hebrews:12:5-11

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* And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children , My son , despise not thou the chastening of the Lord , nor faint when thou art rebuked of him : * For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth , and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth . * If ye endure chastening , God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not ? * But if ye be without chastisement , whereof all are partakers , then are ye bastards , and not sons . * Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us , and we gave them reverence : shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits , and live ? * For 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 . * Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous , but grievous : nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby .

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