Hebrews 12:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Ye have forgotten

The exhortation

Hebrews 12:7

Proverbs 3:11

Despise

Nor faint

General references

Hebrews 12:12

Bible References

Ye have forgotten

“Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons.

I shall

delight in Your statutes;

I shall not forget Your word.

My son, do not forget my teaching,
But let your heart keep my commandments;

Acquire wisdom! Acquire understanding!

Do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.

Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets full you picked up?

He is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee,

The exhortation

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?

My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord

Or loathe His reproof,

Despise

“Behold, how happy is the man whom God reproves,
So do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

“For has anyone said to God,
‘I have borne chastisement;
I will not offend anymore;

Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O Lord,
And whom You teach out of Your law;

The Lord has disciplined me severely,

But He has not given me over to death.

I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteous,
And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving,
‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised,
Like an untrained calf;

Bring me back that I may be restored,

For You are the Lord my God.

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

Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.

Nor faint

For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary

and lose heart.

Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, why did You ever bring this people over the Jordan, only to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? If only we had been willing to dwell beyond the Jordan!

And the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for his irreverence; and he died there by the ark of God.

When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, because the oxen nearly upset it.

and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites; consecrate yourselves both you and your relatives, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place that I have prepared for it.

For the choir director; with stringed instruments, upon an eight-string lyre. A Psalm of David.
O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger,
Nor chasten me in Your wrath.

we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;

And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

General references

Therefore,

strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,