Hebrews 12:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."

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  • Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
  • Ps 119:75 : 75 I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
  • Prov 3:12 : 12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.
  • Ps 32:1-5 : 1 Blessed is he whose wrongdoing is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not count iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit. 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality turned into the drought of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly.
  • 2 Sam 7:14 : 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
  • Deut 8:5 : 5 You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
  • Jer 10:24 : 24 O LORD, correct me, but with justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
  • Heb 12:7-8 : 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastisement, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
  • Jas 1:12 : 12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation: for when he is tried, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
  • Jas 5:11 : 11 Behold, we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate and full of mercy.
  • Ps 73:14-15 : 14 For all day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning. 15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would offend against the generation of Your children.
  • Ps 89:30-34 : 30 If his children forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments; 31 If they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments; 32 Then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. 34 My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of my lips.
  • Ps 94:12 : 12 Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;
  • Ps 119:71 : 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes.
  • Isa 27:9 : 9 By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten apart, the groves and images shall not stand up.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 12:7-11
    5 verses
    90%

    7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

    8 But if you are without chastisement, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

    9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected them: shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

    10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but he for our benefit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

    11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful: nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

  • Prov 3:11-12
    2 verses
    88%

    11 My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD; nor be weary of his correction:

    12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.

  • Heb 12:5
    88%

    5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him:

  • Deut 8:5
    80%

    5 You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

  • Prov 13:24
    79%

    24 He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

  • Rev 3:19
    78%

    19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

  • Job 5:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty:

    18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.

  • Ps 94:12
    78%

    12 Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;

  • Prov 19:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    18 Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not spare for his crying.

    19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment; for if you deliver him, yet you must do it again.

  • Prov 23:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.

    14 You shall beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.

  • Eph 6:4
    74%

    4 And, you fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 7:14
    74%

    14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

  • Deut 21:18
    73%

    18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them,

  • 1 Cor 11:32
    73%

    32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

  • Prov 13:1
    72%

    1 A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

  • Ps 6:1
    72%

    1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure.

  • Prov 22:6
    72%

    6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 29:17
    71%

    17 Correct your son, and he will give you rest; yes, he will give delight to your soul.

  • Prov 15:10
    70%

    10 Correction is grievous to him who forsakes the way, and he who hates reproof shall die.

  • 1 Kgs 12:11
    70%

    11 And now, whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

  • Ps 94:10
    70%

    10 He that chastises the nations, shall he not correct? he that teaches man knowledge, shall he not know?

  • Heb 6:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 If they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.

    7 For the land that drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and produces crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God:

  • Prov 12:1
    70%

    1 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is foolish.

  • Prov 22:15
    70%

    15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

  • Ps 118:18
    70%

    18 The LORD has chastened me severely, but He has not given me over to death.

  • Prov 19:26
    70%

    26 He who wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son who causes shame, and brings reproach.

  • 2 Cor 2:6
    70%

    6 The punishment inflicted by many is sufficient for such a person.

  • Prov 29:15
    69%

    15 The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

  • Eph 6:1
    69%

    1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

  • Ps 73:14
    69%

    14 For all day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.

  • Lev 26:28
    69%

    28 Then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

  • Prov 1:8
    69%

    8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

  • 1 Cor 4:14
    69%

    14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.

  • Prov 19:29
    69%

    29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

  • Jer 31:18
    69%

    18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not accustomed to the yoke: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.

  • Prov 17:3
    69%

    3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.

  • 1 Kgs 12:14
    69%

    14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke; my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

  • Prov 15:5
    69%

    5 A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who regards reproof is prudent.

  • Prov 17:10
    69%

    10 A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.

  • 2 Chr 10:11
    69%

    11 For my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.