Hebrews 12:10

World English Bible (2000)

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

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  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
  • Lev 11:44-45 : 44 For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth. 45 For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
  • Lev 19:2 : 2 "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I Yahweh your God am holy.
  • Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,
  • Ezek 36:25-27 : 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
  • Eph 4:24 : 24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
  • Eph 5:26-27 : 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
  • Col 1:22 : 22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • Heb 12:5-6 : 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; 6 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; 16 because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up 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, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

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    5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

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

    7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

    8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

    9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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    11All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

  • Prov 3:11-12
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    11My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

    12for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

  • Job 5:17
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    17"Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

  • Deut 8:5
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    5You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.

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

  • Ps 94:12
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    12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;

  • Eph 6:4
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    4You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  • Prov 13:24
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    24One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

  • Heb 2:10-11
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    10For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

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    10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

  • Heb 10:32-34
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    32But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

    33partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

    34For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

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    6Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

  • Heb 10:29-30
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    30For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me," says the Lord, "I will repay." Again, "The Lord will judge his people."

  • Heb 11:40
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    40God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

  • Acts 13:18
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    18For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

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

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    14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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    15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

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    13Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

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    18Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.

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

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    9I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

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    24Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

  • Heb 11:25
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    25choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;