Hebrews 12:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.

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  • Rev 3:19 : 19 To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.
  • Ps 119:75 : 75 I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.
  • Prov 3:12 : 12 For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.
  • Ps 32:1-5 : 1 <Of David. Maschil.> Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered. 2 Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day. 4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.) 5 I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.
  • 2 Sam 7:14 : 14 I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;
  • Deut 8:5 : 5 Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.
  • Jer 10:24 : 24 O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.
  • Heb 12:7-8 : 7 It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father? 8 But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.
  • Jas 1:12 : 12 There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.
  • Jas 5:11 : 11 We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
  • Ps 73:14-15 : 14 For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment. 15 If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.
  • Ps 89:30-34 : 30 If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions; 31 If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept; 32 Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing. 33 But I will not take away my mercy from him, and will not be false to my faith. 34 I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.
  • Ps 94:12 : 12 Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;
  • Ps 119:71 : 71 It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.
  • Isa 27:9 : 9 So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

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  • Heb 12:7-11
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    7 It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

    8 But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.

    9 And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

    10 For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.

    11 At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

  • Prov 3:11-12
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    88%

    11 My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:

    12 For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.

  • Heb 12:5
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    5 And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;

  • Deut 8:5
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    5 Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.

  • Prov 13:24
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    24 He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

  • Rev 3:19
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    19 To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.

  • Job 5:17-18
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    78%

    17 Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

    18 For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.

  • Ps 94:12
    78%

    12 Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

  • Prov 19:18-19
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    18 Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

    19 A man of great wrath will have to take his punishment: for if you get him out of trouble you will have to do it again.

  • Prov 23:13-14
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    13 Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.

    14 Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.

  • Eph 6:4
    74%

    4 And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 7:14
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    14 I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;

  • Deut 21:18
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    18 If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

  • 1 Cor 11:32
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    32 But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.

  • Prov 13:1
    72%

    1 A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

  • Ps 6:1
    72%

    1 <To the chief music-maker on corded instruments, on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, do not be bitter with me in your wrath; do not send punishment on me in the heat of your passion.

  • Prov 22:6
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    6 If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

  • Prov 29:17
    71%

    17 Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.

  • Prov 15:10
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    10 There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.

  • 1 Kgs 12:11
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    11 If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

  • Ps 94:10
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    10 He who is the judge of the nations, will he not give men the reward of their acts, even he who gives knowledge to man?

  • Heb 6:6-7
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    6 And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.

    7 For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

  • Prov 12:1
    70%

    1 A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.

  • Prov 22:15
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    15 Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

  • Ps 118:18
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    18 The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

  • Prov 19:26
    70%

    26 He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.

  • 2 Cor 2:6
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    6 Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him;

  • Prov 29:15
    69%

    15 The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

  • Eph 6:1
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    1 Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

  • Ps 73:14
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    14 For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

  • Lev 26:28
    69%

    28 Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.

  • Prov 1:8
    69%

    8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

  • 1 Cor 4:14
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    14 I am not saying these things to put you to shame, but so that, as my dear children, you may see what is right.

  • Prov 19:29
    69%

    29 Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.

  • Jer 31:18
    69%

    18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

  • Prov 17:3
    69%

    3 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

  • 1 Kgs 12:14
    69%

    14 But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

  • Prov 15:5
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    5 A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.

  • Prov 17:10
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    10 A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.

  • 2 Chr 10:11
    69%

    11 If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.