Hebrews 12:7

Hebrews 12:7

5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
^a“My son, do not despise the¹ chastening of the Lord,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;

6 For ^awhom the Lord loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.”

7 ^aIf¹ you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what ^bson is there whom a father does not chasten?

8 But if you are without chastening, ^aof which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to ^athe Father of spirits and live?

10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, ^athat we may be partakers of His holiness.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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That ye endure (upomenete). Present active indicative or present active imperative and so just "endure for chastening."

Dealeth with you (umin prosferetai). Present middle indicative of prosferw, but this sense of bearing oneself towards one with the dative here only in the N.T., though often in the older Greek.

What (tiv). Interrogative.

Whom (on). Relative. Cf. Matthew 7:9.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Hebrews 12:7:**

1 Corinthians 11:32
Ephesians 6:4
1 John 4:18

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