Hebrews 12:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

If ye endure chastening, God offereth him selfe vnto you as vnto sonnes: for what sonne is it whom the father chasteneth not?

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  • Prov 19:18 : 18 Chasten thy sonne while there is hope, and let not thy soule spare for his murmuring.
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 He that spareth his rodde, hateth his sonne: but he that loueth him, chasteneth him betime.
  • Prov 29:15 : 15 The rodde and correction giue wisdome: but a childe set a libertie, maketh his mother ashamed.
  • Deut 8:5 : 5 Knowe therefore in thine heart, that as a man nourtereth his sonne, so the Lord thy God nourtereth thee.
  • Prov 29:17 : 17 Correct thy sonne & he will giue thee rest, and will giue pleasures to thy soule.
  • Prov 23:13-14 : 13 Withhold not correction from the childe: if thou smite him with the rodde, he shall not die. 14 Thou shalt smite him with the rodde, and shalt deliuer his soule from hell.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 Confirming the disciples hearts, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, affirming that we must through many afflictions enter into the kingdome of God.
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Wherefore haue you kicked against my sacrifice and mine offering, which I commaunded in my Tabernacle, and honourest thy children aboue mee, to make your selues fatte of the first fruites of all the offerings of Israel my people?
  • 1 Sam 2:34 : 34 And this shalbe a signe vnto thee, that shal come vpon thy two sonnes Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both.
  • 1 Sam 3:13 : 13 And I haue tolde him that I will iudge his house for euer, for the iniquitie which hee knoweth, because his sonnes ranne into a slaunder, and he stayed them not.
  • 2 Sam 7:14 : 14 I will be his father, and hee shall bee my sonne: and if he sinne, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the plagues of the children of men.
  • 1 Kgs 1:6 : 6 And his father would not displease him from his childehood, to say, Why hast thou done so? And hee was a very goodly man, and his mother bare him next after Absalom.
  • 1 Kgs 2:24-25 : 24 Now therefore as ye Lord liueth, who hath established me, & set me on the throne of Dauid my father, who also hath made me an house, as he promised, Adoniiah shall surely die this day. 25 And King Salomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada, and hee smote him that he dyed.
  • Job 34:31-32 : 31 Surely it appertaineth vnto God to say, I haue pardoned, I will not destroy. 32 But if I see not, teach thou me: if I haue done wickedly, I will doe no more.
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Foolishnesse is bounde in the heart of a childe: but the rodde of correction shall driue it away from him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 12:4-6
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    4 Ye haue not yet resisted vnto blood, striuing against sinne.

    5 And ye haue forgotten the consolation, which speaketh vnto you as vnto children, My sonne, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither faint when thou art rebuked of him.

    6 For whom the Lord loueth, he chasteneth: and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receiueth:

  • Heb 12:8-11
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    8 If therefore ye be without correction, whereof al are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sonnes.

    9 Moreouer we haue had the fathers of our bodies which corrected vs, and we gaue them reuerence: should we not much rather be in subiection vnto the father of spirites, that we might liue?

    10 For they verely for a few dayes chastened vs after their owne pleasure: but he chasteneth vs for our profite, that we might be partakers of his holinesse.

    11 Now no chastising for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but, grieuous: but afterwarde, it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse, vnto them which are thereby exercised.

  • Prov 3:11-12
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    11 My sonne, refuse not the chastening of the Lord, neither be grieued with his correction.

    12 For the Lord correcteth him, whome he loueth, euen as the father doeth the childe in whom he deliteth.

  • 5 Knowe therefore in thine heart, that as a man nourtereth his sonne, so the Lord thy God nourtereth thee.

  • 24 He that spareth his rodde, hateth his sonne: but he that loueth him, chasteneth him betime.

  • 14 I will be his father, and hee shall bee my sonne: and if he sinne, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the plagues of the children of men.

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    18 If any man haue a sonne that is stubburne and disobedient, which wil not hearken vnto the voice of his father, nor the voyce of his mother, and they haue chastened him, and he would not obey them,

    19 Then shall his father and his mother take him, & bring him out vnto the Elders of his citie, & vnto the gate of the place where he dwelleth,

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    13 Withhold not correction from the childe: if thou smite him with the rodde, he shall not die.

    14 Thou shalt smite him with the rodde, and shalt deliuer his soule from hell.

  • 17 Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.

  • 18 Chasten thy sonne while there is hope, and let not thy soule spare for his murmuring.

  • 12 Blessed is the man, whom thou chastisest, O Lord, and teachest him in thy Lawe,

  • 4 And ye, fathers, prouoke not your children to wrath: but bring them vp in instruction and information of the Lord.

  • 19 As many as I loue, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and amend.

  • 7 Wherefore, thou art no more a seruant, but a sonne: now if thou be a sone, thou art also the heire of God through Christ.

  • 32 But when we are iudged, we are chastened of the Lord, because we should not be condemned with the world.

  • 1 A wise sonne will obey the instruction of his father: but a scorner will heare no rebuke.

  • 17 Correct thy sonne & he will giue thee rest, and will giue pleasures to thy soule.

  • 1 Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.

  • 14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloued children I admonish you.

  • 25 A foolish sonne is a griefe vnto his father, and a heauines to her that bare him.

  • 6 Teache a childe in the trade of his way, and when he is olde, he shall not depart from it.

  • 14 For as many as are ledde by the Spirit of God, they are the sonnes of God.

  • 17 And if ye call him Father, which without respect of person iudgeth according to euery mans woorke, passe the time of your dwelling here in feare,

  • 20 For what praise is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faultes, yee take it paciently? but and if when ye doe well, ye suffer wrong and take it paciently, this is acceptable to God.

  • 28 Then will I walke stubburnly in mine anger against you, and I will also chastice you seuen times more according to your sinnes.

  • 8 My sonne, heare thy fathers instruction, and forsake not thy mothers teaching.

  • 4 If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie,

  • 7 Wherefore, as the holy Ghost sayth, To day if ye shall heare his voyce,

  • 12 Dearely beloued, thinke it not strange concerning the firie triall, which is among you to proue you, as though some strange thing were come vnto you:

  • 10 Or he that chastiseth the nations, shall he not correct? hee that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not knowe?

  • 18 And if ye wil not for these things obey me, then wil I punish you seuen times more, according to your sinnes,

  • 26 He that destroyeth his father, or chaseth away his mother, is a lewde and shamefull childe.

  • 17 For ye knowe howe that afterwarde also when he woulde haue inherited the blessing, he was reiected: for he founde no place to repentance, though he sought that blessing with teares.

  • 21 Fathers, prouoke not your children to anger, least they be discouraged.

  • 7 For the earth which drinketh in the raine that commeth oft vpon it, and bringeth foorth herbes meete for them by whome it is dressed, receiueth blessing of God.

  • 8 And though he were ye Sonne, yet learned he obedience, by the things which he suffered.

  • 11 Now where as my father did burden you with a grieuous yoke, I will yet make your yoke heauier: my father hath chastised you with rods, but I will correct you with scourges.

  • 5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous iudgement of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdome of God, for the which ye also suffer.

  • 6 Wherein yee reioyce, though nowe for a season (if neede require) yee are in heauinesse, through manifolde tentations,

  • 11 As ye knowe how that we exhorted you, and comforted, and besought euery one of you (as a father his children)

  • 15 Foolishnesse is bounde in the heart of a childe: but the rodde of correction shall driue it away from him.

  • 17 If we be children, we are also heires, euen the heires of God, and heires annexed with Christ: if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.