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For the Lord disciplines those he loves,
    and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”[a]

As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father?

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Footnotes

  1. 12:5-6 Prov 3:11-12 (Greek version).

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

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

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