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Hebrews, Chapter 12, verses 4-17

⁴ You have not yet resisted^d Lit as far as bloodto 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.”	4 Heb 10:32 Heb 13:13 Php 2:8 5 Job 5:17 Pro 3:11 Heb 12:3 6 Pro 3:12 Psa 119:75 Rev 3:19
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^e Lit fathers of our fleshearthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of^f Or our spiritsspirits, 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.	7 Deu 8:5 Sa2 7:14 Pro 13:24 Pro 19:18 Pro 23:13 8 Pe1 5:9 9 Luk 18:2 Num 16:22 Num 27:16 Rev 22:6 Isa 38:16 10 Pe2 1:4 11 Pe1 1:6 Isa 32:17 Ti2 4:8 Jam 3:17
¹² Therefore,^g Lit make straightstrengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, ¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.	12 Isa 35:3 13 Pro 4:26 Gal 2:14 Gal 6:1 Jam 5:16
¹⁴ Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. ¹⁵ See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; ¹⁶ that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. ¹⁷ For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.	14 Rom 14:19 Rom 6:22 Heb 12:10 Mat 5:8 Heb 9:28 15 Co2 6:1 Gal 5:4 Heb 4:1 Deu 29:18 Tit 1:15 16 Heb 13:4 Ti1 1:9 Gen 25:33 17 Gen 27:30-40


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