Hebrews 12:1-11 - The Example Of Jesus' Suffering
1 Wherefore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us, 2 looking to Jesus the author and finisher of the faith, who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such opposition of sinners against himself, lest you become weary and despondent in your minds. 4 You have not yet resisted to blood, in your contest with sin; 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him. 6 For, whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son that he receives.
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons: for what son is there whose father chastens him not? 8 But if you are without chastisement, of which all are par takers, then are you bastards, and not sons. 9 So, then, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live? 10 For they, indeed, for a few days, chastened us as they thought it good; but he chastens us for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 But no chastisement seems, at the time, to be a matter of joy, but of grief: yet afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.