Hebrews 12:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children, for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline?

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:14

I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rod such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by human beings.

1 Kings 1:6

His father had never at any time reprimanded him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.

Proverbs 13:24

Those who spare the rod hate their children, but those who love them are diligent to discipline them.

Proverbs 19:18

Discipline your children while there is hope; do not set your heart on their destruction.

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far away.

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.

Proverbs 29:17

Discipline your children, and they will give you rest; they will give delight to your heart.

Acts 14:22

There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”

1 Corinthians 11:32

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

Deuteronomy 8:5

Know, then, in your heart that, as a parent disciplines a child, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

1 Samuel 2:29

Why then look with greedy eye at my sacrifices and my offerings and honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?

1 Samuel 2:34

The fate of your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.

1 Samuel 3:13

For I have told him that I am about to punish his house forever for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.