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Hebrews 12:5 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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; "
Hebrews 12:5
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3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
5 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 disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
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?
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Hebrews 12:1
"Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,"
Hebrews 12:2
"looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."
Hebrews 12:3
"For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls."
Hebrews 12:4
"You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin."
Hebrews 12:6
"for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”"
Hebrews 12:7
"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?"
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