Hebrews 12:3-11

New American Standard Bible 1995

³ For ^(A)consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary ^[a](B)and lose heart.

A Father’s Discipline

^4 (C)You have not yet resisted ^[b](D)to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; ⁵ and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

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