Hebrews 12:1-11 - The Example Of Jesus' Suffering

¹ Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us, ² looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God.

³ For consider him that has endured such a contradiction from sinners, that you may not become faint and weary in your minds. ⁴ You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin. ⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation which says to you as to sons, My son, despise not the correction of the Lord and faint not when rebuked by him, ⁶ for the Lord corrects those whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.

⁷ If you endure correction, God deals with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not correct? ⁸ But if you are without correction of which all are partakers, then you are of foreign birth, and not sons. ⁹ Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? ¹⁰ For they for a few days corrected us as seemed good to them, but he for the best, that we may partake of his holiness. ¹¹ And no correction seems to be joyful for the present but painful, but afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.