Hebrews 12:1-11 - The Example Of Jesus' Suffering

¹ Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which is set before us, ² looking unto Jesus the beginner and perfecter of our faith; who for the joy that was placed before him, endured the cross, looking with contempt at the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.

³ For consider him who has endured so great a contradiction of sinners against himself, in order that you may not become weary, fainting in your souls. ⁴ For you have not yet resisted unto blood, fighting against sin; ⁵ and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art proven of him: ⁶ for whom the Lord loves he chastises, and scourges every son whom he receives.

⁷ Endure unto chastisement; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom the father does not chastise? ⁸ And if you are without chastisement, of which all have been partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons. ⁹ Then indeed, we had fathers of our flesh who chastised us, and we endured: how much more then shall we submit to the Father of spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days were accustomed to chastise us according to that which seemed right to them; but he made unto our profit, in order that we might partake his holiness. ¹¹ Indeed no chastisement for the present seems to be truly joyful, but sorrowful: but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who have been disciplined by it.