Hebrews 12:3-13 - Fatherly Discipline

³ For consider the man who endured such hostility against him by sinners, so that ye may not be weary in your souls, being disheartened. ⁴ Ye have not yet resisted as far as blood, struggling against sin. ⁵ And have ye forgotten the exhortation that reasons with you as with sons, My son, do not disparage the chastening of Lord, nor become disheartened when punished by him? ⁶ For whom Lord loves he chastens. And he whips every son whom he receives.

⁷ Because of chastening ye endure; God is treating you as with sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? ⁸ And if ye are without chastening, of which all have become participants, then ye are bastards, and not sons. ⁹ Besides, we indeed have had chastisers--the fathers of our flesh--and we were turned around. Shall we not much more be subordinate to the Father of the spirits, and we will live? ¹⁰ For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

¹² Therefore lift up the drooping hands, and the feeble knees, ¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be turned away, but may be healed instead.