Hebrews 12:6

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
  • Ps 119:75 : 75 Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
  • Prov 3:12 : 12 for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
  • Ps 32:1-5 : 1 Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit. 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
  • 2 Sam 7:14 : 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
  • Deut 8:5 : 5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.
  • Jer 10:24 : 24 Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
  • Heb 12:7-8 : 7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.
  • Jas 1:12 : 12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
  • Jas 5:11 : 11 Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
  • Ps 73:14-15 : 14 For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning. 15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
  • Ps 89:30-34 : 30 If his children forsake my law, and don't walk in my ordinances; 31 if they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments; 32 then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. 34 I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
  • Ps 94:12 : 12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach 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 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 12:7-11
    5 verses
    90%

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

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

    9 Furthermore, 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?

    10 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.

    11 All 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
    2 verses
    88%

    11 My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

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

  • Heb 12:5
    88%

    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;

  • Deut 8:5
    80%

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

  • Prov 13:24
    79%

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

  • Rev 3:19
    78%

    19 As many as I love, I reprove 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 wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.

  • Ps 94:12
    78%

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

  • Prov 19:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

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

    19 A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

  • Prov 23:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

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

    14 Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

  • Eph 6:4
    74%

    4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction 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 chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

  • Deut 21:18
    73%

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

  • 1 Cor 11:32
    73%

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

  • Prov 13:1
    72%

    1 A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.

  • Ps 6:1
    72%

    1 Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

  • 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 peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

  • Prov 15:10
    70%

    10 There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

  • 1 Kgs 12:11
    70%

    11 Now whereas my father burdened 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 who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows.

  • Heb 6:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

    7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

  • Prov 12:1
    70%

    1 Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

  • Prov 22:15
    70%

    15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

  • Ps 118:18
    70%

    18 Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

  • Prov 19:26
    70%

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

  • 2 Cor 2:6
    70%

    6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

  • Prov 29:15
    69%

    15 The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes 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 have I been plagued, and punished every morning.

  • Lev 26:28
    69%

    28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.

  • Prov 1:8
    69%

    8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

  • 1 Cor 4:14
    69%

    14 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

  • Prov 19:29
    69%

    29 Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs 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 calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

  • Prov 17:3
    69%

    3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh 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, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions."

  • Prov 15:5
    69%

    5 A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

  • Prov 17:10
    69%

    10 A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

  • 2 Chr 10:11
    69%

    11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.'"