Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not?
New American Standard Bible
It is for discipline that you endure;
King James Version
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Holman Bible
Endure suffering as discipline: God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?
International Standard Version
What you endure disciplines you: God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline?
A Conservative Version
Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
American Standard Version
It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?
Amplified
You must submit to [correction for the purpose of] discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons; for
An Understandable Version
[For the suffering] you are enduring [is] for your discipline. God is dealing with you as He does with [His] children, for what child is not disciplined by his father?
Anderson New Testament
If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons: for what son is there whose father chastens him not?
Bible in Basic English
It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?
Common New Testament
It is for discipline that you endure. God is treating you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
Daniel Mace New Testament
if you are to endure chastisement, God treats you as his children: for where's the son whom his father does not chastise?
Darby Translation
Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?
Godbey New Testament
Endure unto chastisement; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom the father does not chastise?
Goodspeed New Testament
You must submit to it as discipline. God is dealing with you as his sons. For where is there a son whom his father does not discipline?
John Wesley New Testament
If ye endure chastning, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he, whom his father chastneth not?
King James 2000
If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Endure [it] for discipline. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son [is there] whom a father does not discipline?
Modern King James verseion
If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If ye shall endure chastening, God offereth himself unto you, as unto sons. What son is that whom the father chasteneth not?
Moffatt New Testament
It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for where is the son who is not disciplined by his father?
Montgomery New Testament
It is for discipline that you are enduring these sufferings. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
NET Bible
Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?
New Heart English Bible
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
Noyes New Testament
It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he, whom the father chasteneth not?
Sawyer New Testament
If you endure correction, God deals with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not correct?
The Emphasized Bible
For the sake of discipline, persevere! As towards sons, God, beareth himself, towards you; for who is a son whom a father doth not discipline?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
If ye patiently endure correction, God carries himself towards you as his children: for who is the son whom the father doth not correct?
Twentieth Century New Testament
It is for your discipline that you have to endure all this. God is dealing with you as his Children. For where is there a child whom his father does not discipline?
Webster
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons: for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Weymouth New Testament
The sufferings that you are enduring are for your discipline. God is dealing with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
Williams New Testament
You must submit to discipline. God is dealing with you as His sons. For who is the son that his father never disciplines?
World English Bible
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?
Worrell New Testament
For chastening endure ye: God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chastens not?
Worsley New Testament
If ye endure chastening, God treateth you as sons; for what son is there, whom the father doth not chastise?
Youngs Literal Translation
if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?
Themes
Afflicted saints » Exhibit the love and faithfulness of God
Afflictions » Exhibit the love and faithfulness of God
Chastisement » The lord chastening
Chastisement » Why the lord chastens people
Chastisement » The reward for enduring the chastening of the lord
Endurance » In enduring hardship
Endurance » The reward for enduring
God's Promises » For endurance
Parents » Their duty to their children is » To correct them
Partaking » Who partakes with the lord
Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » In enduring hardship
Topics
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Devotionals about Hebrews 12:7
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Images Hebrews 12:7
Prayers for Hebrews 12:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Fatherly Discipline
6 For whom the Lord loves he corrects, and he chastises every son which he receives. 7 If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not? 8 And if ye are without correction, of which all are partakers, then are ye spurious, not sons.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 13:24
He withholding his rod hates his son: and he loving him, sought correction for him.
Proverbs 19:18
Correct thy son when there is hope, and thy soul shall not lift up for his sighing.
Proverbs 29:15
The rod and reproofs will give wisdom: and the youth being left shames his mother.
Deuteronomy 8:5
And know thou with thy heart that as a man will chastise his son, Jehovah thy God chastises thee.
Proverbs 23:13-14
Thou shalt not withhold instruction from youth: if thou shalt strike him with a rod he shall not die.
Proverbs 29:17
Correct thy son and he shall cause thee to rest, and he shall give delight to thy soul.
1 Samuel 2:29
Wherefore will ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon my gifts which I commanded to my habitation? and thou wilt honor thy sons above me to fatten yourselves from the chief of all the gifts of Israel my people.
1 Samuel 2:34
And this the sign to thee which shall come to thy two sons to Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they two shall die.
1 Samuel 3:13
And I announced to him that I judge his house even forever, for the iniquity which he knew: for his sons cursing for themselves and he admonished them not
2 Samuel 7:14
I will be to him for father, and he shall be to me for son; who in his sinning I struck him with the rod of men, and with the blows of the sons of men.
1 Kings 1:6
And his father grieved him not from his days, saying, Wherefore didst thou thus? and he good of form, exceedingly; and she bare him after Absalom.
1 Kings 2:24-25
And now Jehovah lives who prepared me, and he will set me upon the throne of David my father, and who made for me a house as he spake, for this day Adonijah shall die.
Job 34:31-32
For he said to God, I was lifted up, I will pervert no more.
Acts 14:22
And supporting the souls of the disciples, beseeching to remain in the faith, that through many pressures we must come into the kingdom of God.
Proverbs 22:15
Folly being bound in the heart of a youth; the rod of correction shall remove it far off from him.