7It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father chasteneth not?
8But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of his holiness.
11All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of righteousness.
12Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;
13and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.
