Hebrews 12:7

New Century Version

So hold on through your sufferings, because they are like a father’s discipline. God is treating you as children. All children are disciplined by their fathers.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:14

I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he sins, I will use other people to punish him. They will be my whips.

1 Kings 1:6

Now David had never interfered with Adonijah by questioning what he did. Born next after Absalom, Adonijah was a very handsome man.

Proverbs 13:24

If you do not punish your children, you don’t love them, but if you love your children, you will correct them.

Proverbs 19:18

Correct your children while there is still hope; do not let them destroy themselves.

Proverbs 22:15

Every child is full of foolishness, but punishment can get rid of it.

Proverbs 29:15

Correction and punishment make children wise, but those left alone will disgrace their mother.

Proverbs 29:17

Correct your children, and you will be proud; they will give you satisfaction.

Acts 14:22

making the followers of Jesus stronger and helping them stay in the faith. They said, “We must suffer many things to enter God’s kingdom.”

1 Corinthians 11:32

But when the Lord judges us, he disciplines us so that we will not be destroyed along with the world.

Deuteronomy 8:5

Know in your heart that the Lord your God corrects you as a parent corrects a child.

1 Samuel 2:29

So why don’t you respect the sacrifices and gifts? You honor your sons more than me. You grow fat on the best parts of the meat the Israelites bring to me.’

1 Samuel 2:34

“ ‘I will give you a sign. Both your sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will die on the same day.

1 Samuel 3:13

I told Eli I would punish his family always, because he knew his sons were evil. They acted without honor, but he did not stop them.