^{5 Ref} 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 Ref} For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives."

^{7 Ref} 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 Ref} But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

^{9 Ref} 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 Ref} 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.

^{5 Ref} and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

^{6 Ref} for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

^{7 Ref} if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

^{8 Ref} and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

^{9 Ref} Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

^{10 Ref} for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;