Hebrews 12:7

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Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:18 : 18 Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.
  • Prov 29:15 : 15 A rod and reproof impart wisdom, but a child who is unrestrained brings shame to his mother.
  • Deut 8:5 : 5 Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the LORD your God disciplines you.
  • Prov 29:17 : 17 Discipline your child, and he will give you rest; he will bring you happiness.
  • Prov 23:13-14 : 13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. 14 If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying,“We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions.”
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why are you scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.’
  • 1 Sam 2:34 : 34 This will be a confirming sign for you that will be fulfilled through your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: in a single day they both will die!
  • 1 Sam 3:13 : 13 You should tell him that I am about to judge his house forever because of the sin that he knew about. For his sons were cursing God, and he did not rebuke them.
  • 2 Sam 7:14 : 14 I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.
  • 1 Kgs 1:6 : 6 (Now his father had never corrected him by saying,“Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom.)
  • 1 Kgs 2:24-25 : 24 Now, as certainly as the LORD lives(he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!” 25 King Solomon then sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he killed Adonijah.
  • Job 34:31-32 : 31 Job Is Foolish to Rebel“Has anyone said to God,‘I have endured chastisement, but I will not act wrongly any more. 32 Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 12:4-6
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    4You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin.

    5And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons?“My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you.

    6“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”

  • Heb 12:8-11
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    90%

    8But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

    9Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

    10For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.

    11Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.

  • Prov 3:11-12
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    11My child, do not despise discipline from the LORD, and do not loathe his rebuke.

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

  • Deut 8:5
    80%

    5Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the LORD your God disciplines you.

  • Prov 13:24
    77%

    24The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.

  • 2 Sam 7:14
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    14I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.

  • Deut 21:18-19
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    77%

    18If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

    19his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

  • Prov 23:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

    14If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death.

  • Job 5:17
    76%

    17“Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

  • Prov 19:18
    76%

    18Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.

  • Ps 94:12
    75%

    12How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O LORD, the one whom you teach from your law,

  • Eph 6:4
    74%

    4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  • Rev 3:19
    73%

    19All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!

  • Gal 4:7
    73%

    7So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.

  • 1 Cor 11:32
    72%

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

  • Prov 13:1
    72%

    1A wise son accepts his father’s discipline, but a scoffer has never listened to rebuke.

  • Prov 29:17
    71%

    17Discipline your child, and he will give you rest; he will bring you happiness.

  • Prov 4:1
    71%

    1Admonition to Follow Righteousness and Avoid Wickedness Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.

  • 1 Cor 4:14
    71%

    14A Father’s Warning I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

  • Prov 17:25
    70%

    25A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

  • Prov 22:6
    70%

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

  • Rom 8:14
    70%

    14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.

  • 1 Pet 1:17
    70%

    17And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.

  • 1 Pet 2:20
    69%

    20For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.

  • Lev 26:28
    69%

    28I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

  • Prov 1:8
    69%

    8Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

  • Job 8:4
    69%

    4If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

  • Heb 3:7
    69%

    7Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

  • 1 Pet 4:12
    69%

    12Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.

  • Ps 94:10
    69%

    10Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!

  • Lev 26:18
    69%

    18“‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.

  • Prov 19:26
    68%

    26The one who robs his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

  • Heb 12:17
    68%

    17For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.

  • Col 3:21
    68%

    21Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become disheartened.

  • Heb 6:7
    68%

    7For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

  • Heb 5:8
    68%

    8Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered.

  • 1 Kgs 12:11
    68%

    11My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.’”

  • 2 Thess 1:5
    68%

    5Encouragement in Persecution This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.

  • 1 Pet 1:6
    68%

    6This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials.

  • 1 Thess 2:11
    68%

    11As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

  • Prov 22:15
    68%

    15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

  • Rom 8:17
    68%

    17And if children, then heirs(namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)– if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.