Hebrews 12:10

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Our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few days as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

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  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 Through these, He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
  • Lev 11:44-45 : 44 For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not defile yourselves with any of the swarming creatures that move along the ground. 45 For I am the LORD, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore, be holy, because I am holy.
  • Lev 19:2 : 2 Speak to the entire assembly of the Israelites and tell them: 'Be holy, because I, the LORD your God, am holy.'
  • Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I will see your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.
  • Ezek 36:25-27 : 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.
  • Eph 4:24 : 24 and to put on the new self, which is created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
  • Eph 5:26-27 : 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing of water through the word, 27 and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
  • Col 1:22 : 22 He has now reconciled in His physical body through death to present you holy, blameless, and above reproach before Him—
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify a people for His own possession, who are eager to do good works.
  • Heb 12:5-6 : 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not take lightly the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when you are reproved by Him." 6 For the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He chastises every son He accepts.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 But just as the One who called you is holy, so also be holy in all your conduct. 16 For it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

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  • Heb 12:5-9
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    5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not take lightly the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when you are reproved by Him."

    6For the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He chastises every son He accepts.

    7If you endure discipline, God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

    8If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

    9Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!

  • Heb 12:11
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    11No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

  • Prov 3:11-12
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    11My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline, and do not be weary of His reproof.

    12For the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

  • Job 5:17
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    17Behold, blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

  • Deut 8:5
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    5Know then in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

  • 1 Cor 11:32
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    32Nevertheless, when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.

  • Ps 94:12
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    12Blessed is the one you discipline, LORD, the one you teach from Your law.

  • Eph 6:4
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    4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

  • Prov 13:24
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    24Whoever spares the rod hates their child, but the one who loves their child is diligent to discipline them.

  • Heb 2:10-11
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    10For it was fitting for Him—for whom and through whom everything exists—to bring many sons to glory by making the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

    11Both the One who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one Father. That is why He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

  • 1 Pet 5:10
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    10But the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered for a little while, will Himself restore, establish, strengthen, and uphold you.

  • Heb 10:32-34
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    32Remember those earlier days after you had been enlightened, when you endured a hard struggle with suffering.

    33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insults and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.

    34For you sympathized with those in prison and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, knowing that you have a better and lasting possession in heaven.

  • 1 Pet 1:6
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    6In this you rejoice greatly, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,

  • Heb 10:29-30
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    29How much more severe punishment do you think someone deserves who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, treated as unholy the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

    30For we know Him who said, 'Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,' says the Lord. And again, 'The Lord will judge His people.'

  • Heb 11:40
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    40Since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.

  • Acts 13:18
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    18For about forty years He endured their behavior in the wilderness.

  • Ps 90:15
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    15Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen trouble.

  • Heb 12:14
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    14Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 4:17
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    17For our momentary and light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.

  • Heb 10:15
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    15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First, He says:

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, completing holiness in the fear of God.

  • Heb 3:7
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    7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,

  • Heb 13:17
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    17Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Allow them to do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

  • Prov 23:13-14
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    13Do not withhold discipline from a child; though you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

    14You shall strike him with the rod and deliver his soul from Sheol.

  • Prov 19:18
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    18Discipline your son while there is hope, and do not desire his death.

  • Ps 73:14
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    14For I am stricken all day long and chastened every morning.

  • Job 36:10-11
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    10He opens their ears to instruction and tells them to turn away from iniquity.

    11If they listen and serve Him, they will complete their days in prosperity and their years in pleasure.

  • 1 Cor 9:10
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    10Or does He say this entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake because the plowman ought to plow in hope and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the harvest.

  • Prov 29:17
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    17Discipline your son, and he will bring you peace; he will give delight to your soul.

  • 2 Cor 2:6
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    6The punishment imposed by the majority is sufficient for such a person.

  • 1 Cor 4:12
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    12We work hard with our own hands. When we are insulted, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it.

  • 1 Cor 10:6
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    6Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not desire evil things as they did.

  • 2 Cor 7:9
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    9Now I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance. For you were grieved as God intended, so that you would not suffer any loss from us.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For the land that drinks in the rain that often falls on it and produces crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.

  • 2 Sam 7:14
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    14I 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 Thess 2:11
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    11Just as you know how we dealt with each one of you like a father with his own children,

  • 1 Pet 2:20
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    20What credit is it if you sin and are beaten for it, and you endure? But if you do good and suffer for it, and you endure, this is commendable before God.

  • Heb 10:24
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    24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,

  • Heb 11:25
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    25He chose to suffer affliction with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.