Hebrews 12:5-13

New American Standard Bible

⁵and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

“^(A)My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor ^(B)faint when you are punished by Him;
⁶^(C)For ^(D)whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He punishes every son whom He accepts.”

⁷It is for discipline that you endure; ^(E)God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? ⁸But if you are without discipline, ^(F)of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. ⁹Furthermore, we had ^[a]earthly fathers to discipline us, and we ^(G)respected them; shall we not much more be subject to ^(H)the Father of ^[b]spirits, and ^(I)live? ¹⁰For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, ^(J)so that we may share His holiness. ¹¹^(K)For the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward it yields the ^(L)peaceful fruit of righteousness.

¹²Therefore, ^[c]^(M)strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, ¹³and ^(N)make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is impaired may not be dislocated, but rather ^(O)be healed.