Hebrews 12:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:14

I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. If he does wrong, I will reprove him with a human rod and with human punishments;

1 Kings 1:6

Yet his father would never antagonize him by asking, “Why are you doing this?” Adonijah was also very handsome, and next in age to Absalom by the same mother.

Proverbs 13:24

Whoever spares the rod hates the child, but whoever loves will apply discipline.

Proverbs 19:18

Discipline your son, for there is hope; but do not be intent on his death.

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound to the heart of a youth, but the rod of discipline will drive it out.

Proverbs 29:15

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but uncontrolled youths disgrace their mothers.

Proverbs 29:17

Discipline your children, and they will bring you comfort, and give delight to your soul.

Acts 14:22

They strengthened the spirits of the disciples and exhorted them to persevere in the faith, saying, “It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.”

1 Corinthians 11:32

but since we are judged by [the] Lord, we are being disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

Deuteronomy 8:5

So you must know in your heart that, even as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord, your God, disciplines you.

1 Samuel 2:29

Why do you stare greedily at my sacrifices and at the offerings that I have prescribed? Why do you honor your sons more than you honor me, fattening yourselves with the choicest part of every offering of my people Israel?

1 Samuel 2:34

This is a sign for you—what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas. Both of them will die on the same day.

1 Samuel 3:13

I announce to him that I am condemning his house once and for all, because of this crime: though he knew his sons were blaspheming God, he did not reprove them.