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

¹ THEREFORE also seeing we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and that most easily besetting sin, let us run with patience the race lying before us, ² earnestly looking up to Jesus the author and the finisher of faith; who, for the joy set before him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

³ Consider then attentively him that endured from sinners such opposition against himself, that ye be not wearied out, fainting in your souls. ⁴ As yet ye have not resisted unto blood, struggling against sin. ⁵ And have you forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you, as children, "My son, count not lightly of the Lord's childlike correction, nor faint when under his rebuke: ⁶ for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth."

⁷ If ye patiently endure correction, God carries himself towards you as his children: for who is the son whom the father doth not correct? ⁸ If then ye are without correction, of which all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not children. ⁹ If then we have had the fathers of our flesh for correctors, and reverenced them; shall we not much more be under subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days as seemed proper to themselves corrected us; but he for our own advantage, that we might be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ Now all correction at the moment seemeth not to be cause for joy, but for sorrow; but after a while it produceth peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have thereby been disciplined.