Hebrews 12:7

World English Bible (2000)

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?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:18 : 18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
  • Prov 29:15 : 15 The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
  • Deut 8:5 : 5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.
  • Prov 29:17 : 17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
  • Prov 23:13-14 : 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.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
  • 1 Sam 2:29 : 29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at 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 "'This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall both die.
  • 1 Sam 3:13 : 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them.
  • 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;
  • 1 Kgs 1:6 : 6 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, "Why have you done so?" and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.
  • 1 Kgs 2:24-25 : 24 Now therefore as Yahweh 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, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day." 25 King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.
  • Job 34:31-32 : 31 "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more. 32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 12:4-6
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    4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

    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."

  • Heb 12:8-11
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    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
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    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.

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

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

  • 2 Sam 7:14
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    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 21:18-19
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    77%

    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;

    19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on 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%

    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.

  • Job 5:17
    76%

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

  • Prov 19:18
    76%

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

  • Ps 94:12
    75%

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

  • 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.

  • Rev 3:19
    73%

    19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

  • Gal 4:7
    73%

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

  • 1 Cor 11:32
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    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.

  • Prov 29:17
    71%

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

  • Prov 4:1
    71%

    1 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

  • 1 Cor 4:14
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    14 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

  • Prov 17:25
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    25 A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Prov 22:6
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    6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

  • Rom 8:14
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    14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

  • 1 Pet 1:17
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    17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

  • 1 Pet 2:20
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    20 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

  • Lev 26:28
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    28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.

  • Prov 1:8
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    8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

  • Job 8:4
    69%

    4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

  • Heb 3:7
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    7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,

  • 1 Pet 4:12
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    12 Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

  • Ps 94:10
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    10 He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows.

  • Lev 26:18
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    18 "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

  • Prov 19:26
    68%

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

  • Heb 12:17
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    17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

  • Col 3:21
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    21 Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

  • Heb 6:7
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    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;

  • Heb 5:8
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    8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

  • 1 Kgs 12:11
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    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.'"

  • 2 Thess 1:5
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    5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.

  • 1 Pet 1:6
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    6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

  • 1 Thess 2:11
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    11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

  • Prov 22:15
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    15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

  • Rom 8:17
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    17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.