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Hebrews 12:9 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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? "

Hebrews 12:9

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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 you are 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 disciplined 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 trained by it.

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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 12:5

"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;"

Hebrews 12:6

"for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”"

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