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7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
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Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
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If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.
9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
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Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!
10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.
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They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.
11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
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No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
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