Verse 7

If you endure discipline, God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:18 : 18 Discipline your son while there is hope, and do not desire his death.
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 Whoever spares the rod hates their child, but the one who loves their child is diligent to discipline them.
  • Prov 29:15 : 15 The rod of correction and discipline impart wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
  • Deut 8:5 : 5 Know then in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
  • Prov 29:17 : 17 Discipline your son, and he will bring you peace; he will give delight to your soul.
  • Prov 23:13-14 : 13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; though you strike him with the rod, he will not die. 14 You shall strike him with the rod and deliver his soul from Sheol.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith, saying, 'We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.'
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why do you scorn My sacrifice and offering that I commanded for My dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves on the best of all the offerings of My people Israel?
  • 1 Sam 2:34 : 34 And this will be the sign to you that will come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.
  • 1 Sam 3:13 : 13 I have told him that I will judge his house forever because of the sin he knew about. His sons were cursing God, and he did not restrain them.
  • 2 Sam 7:14 : 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he sins, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men.
  • 1 Kgs 1:6 : 6 His father had never rebuked him by asking, "Why have you done this?" Adonijah was also very handsome, and he was born after Absalom.
  • 1 Kgs 2:24-25 : 24 'And now, as surely as the LORD lives—the one who has established me, seated me on the throne of my father David, and made me a dynasty as He promised—Adonijah shall be put to death today!' 25 Then King Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, who struck down Adonijah, and he died.
  • Job 34:31-32 : 31 Suppose someone says to God, 'I have borne punishment; I will not offend anymore.' 32 'Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.'
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.