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for whom the Lord loves, he chastens and scourges everyone whom he receives as a son.

If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?

But if ye are without chastisement, of which all the sons are partakers, then ye are bastards, and not sons.

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because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,(A)
    and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”[a](B)

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children.(C) For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline(D)—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:6 Prov. 3:11,12 (see Septuagint)