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

¹ Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which easily besetteth us, and run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; ² who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right-hand of the throne of God.

³ For consider him that endured such contradiction from sinners against himself, lest ye be weary and faint in your minds. ⁴ Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. ⁵ And yet ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh to you as to sons, My son, despise not thou the chastning of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. ⁶ For whom the Lord loveth, he chastneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

⁷ If ye endure chastning, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he, whom his father chastneth not? ⁸ But if ye are without chastning, of which all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons. ⁹ Moreover 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 spirits and live? ¹⁰ For they, verily, for a few days chastned us as they thought good: but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ Now all chastning for the present is assuredly not joyous, but grievous; yet afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby.