Hebrews 12:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 19:18 : 18 Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not spare for his crying.
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly.
  • Prov 29:15 : 15 The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
  • 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.
  • Prov 29:17 : 17 Correct your son, and he will give you rest; yes, he will give delight to your soul.
  • Prov 23:13-14 : 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.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 Strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that we must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why do you scorn my sacrifice and my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?
  • 1 Sam 2:34 : 34 And this shall be a sign to you, that shall come upon your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; they shall both die on the same day.
  • 1 Sam 3:13 : 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows about; because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them.
  • 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:
  • 1 Kgs 1:6 : 6 And his father had not rebuked him at any time by saying, Why have you done so? And he also was a very handsome man; and his mother bore him after Absalom.
  • 1 Kgs 2:24-25 : 24 Now therefore, as the Lord lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as He promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today. 25 And King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him and he died.
  • Job 34:31-32 : 31 Surely it is proper to say to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend anymore; 32 That which I do not see, teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 12:4-6
    3 verses
    90%

    4You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed, striving against sin.

    5And 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:

    6For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."

  • Heb 12:8-11
    4 verses
    90%

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

    9Furthermore, 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?

    10For 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.

    11Now 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
    83%

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

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

  • Deut 8:5
    80%

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

  • Prov 13:24
    77%

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

  • 2 Sam 7:14
    77%

    14I 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 21:18-19
    2 verses
    77%

    18If 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,

    19Then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place;

  • Prov 23:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Job 5:17
    76%

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

  • Prov 19:18
    76%

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

  • Ps 94:12
    75%

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

  • Eph 6:4
    74%

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

  • Rev 3:19
    73%

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

  • Gal 4:7
    73%

    7Therefore you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

  • 1 Cor 11:32
    72%

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

  • Prov 13:1
    72%

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

  • Prov 29:17
    71%

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

  • Prov 4:1
    71%

    1Listen, you children, to the instruction of a father, and pay attention to gain understanding.

  • 1 Cor 4:14
    71%

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

  • Prov 17:25
    70%

    25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Prov 22:6
    70%

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

  • Rom 8:14
    70%

    14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

  • 1 Pet 1:17
    70%

    17And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in reverent fear;

  • 1 Pet 2:20
    69%

    20For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer for it, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.

  • Lev 26:28
    69%

    28Then 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%

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

  • Job 8:4
    69%

    4If your children have sinned against Him, and He has cast them away for their transgression;

  • Heb 3:7
    69%

    7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear His voice,

  • 1 Pet 4:12
    69%

    12Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to test you, as though some strange thing happened to you:

  • Ps 94:10
    69%

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

  • Lev 26:18
    69%

    18And if you will not yet for all this listen to me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

  • Prov 19:26
    68%

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

  • Heb 12:17
    68%

    17For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

  • Col 3:21
    68%

    21Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.

  • Heb 6:7
    68%

    7For 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:

  • Heb 5:8
    68%

    8Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience through the things which He suffered;

  • 1 Kgs 12:11
    68%

    11And 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.

  • 2 Thess 1:5
    68%

    5Which is a clear sign of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer:

  • 1 Pet 1:6
    68%

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

  • 1 Thess 2:11
    68%

    11As you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,

  • Prov 22:15
    68%

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

  • Rom 8:17
    68%

    17And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.