Parallel Verses
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?
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?
Julia Smith Translation
If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects 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?
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
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Fatherly Discipline
6 For whom the Lord loveth, him he chasteneth: yea, and he scourgeth every son that he receiveth." 7 If ye shall endure chastening, God offereth himself unto you, as unto sons. What son is that whom the father chasteneth not? 8 If ye be not under correction - whereof all are partakers - then are ye bastards and not sons.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth the rod, hateth his son; but whoso loveth him, chastiseth him betimes.
Proverbs 19:18
Chasten thy son while there is hope; but let not thy soul be moved to slay him.
Proverbs 29:15
The rod and correction minister wisdom; but if a child be not looked unto, he bringeth his mother to shame.
Deuteronomy 8:5
Understand, therefore, in thine heart, that as a man nurtureth his son, even so the LORD thy God nurtureth thee.
Proverbs 23:13-14
Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die thereof.
Proverbs 29:17
Nurture thy son with correction, and he shall comfort thee; yea, he shall do the good at thine heart.
1 Samuel 2:29
Wherefore kick ye against my sacrifice and against mine offering which I command in the tabernacle, and honourest thy children above me, and make yourselves fat of the first fruits of all the offerings of Israel my people?'
1 Samuel 2:34
And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: Even in one day they shall die, both of them.
1 Samuel 3:13
For I have told him that I will judge his house forever. For the wickedness which he knoweth, how his sons are ungracious, and he was not wroth therewith.
2 Samuel 7:14
I will be his father and he shall be my son; insomuch that if he sin, I will but rebuke him with such a rod as men be rebuked with and with such plagues as the children of men be plagued with.
1 Kings 1:6
And his father rebuked him not at any time, nor said so much to him as "Why dost thou so?" And he was thereto a goodly man and his mother bare him next, after Absalom.
1 Kings 2:24-25
Now therefore as surely as the LORD liveth which hath established me and set me on the seat of David my father, and which hath made me a house as he promised me, Adonijah shall die this day."
Job 34:31-32
"For so much as I have begun to talk of God, I will not hinder thee;
Acts 14:22
and strengthened the disciples souls: exhorting them to continue in the faith, affirming that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness sticketh in the heart of the lad; but the rod of correction driveth it away.