Hebrews 12:4-11 - God Is Like A Father

⁴ Not yet unto blood, have ye resisted, against sin, waging a contest; ⁵ And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which, indeed, with you as with sons, doth reason: - My son! be not slighting the discipline of the Lord, neither be fainting, when by him, thou art reproved; ⁶ For, whom the Lord loveth, he doth, discipline, and scourgeth every son whom he doth welcome home.

⁷ 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? ⁸ If however ye are without discipline, whereof, all, have received a share, then, are ye, bastards, and, not sons. ⁹ Furthermore, indeed, the fathers of our flesh, we used to have, as administrators of discipline, and we used to pay deference: shall we not, much rather, submit ourselves to the Father of our spirits and, live? ¹⁰ For, they, indeed, for a few days, according to that which seemed good to them, were administering discipline; but, he, unto that which is profitable, with view to our partaking of his holiness: ¹¹ But, no discipline, for the present, indeed, seemeth to be of joy, but of sorrow: afterwards, however - to them who thereby have been trained, it yieldeth peaceful fruit, of righteousness.