7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with sons, for what son is there whom his father doesn`t discipline?
8But if you are without discipline, whereof all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not sons.
9Furthermore, 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?
10For 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.
11All 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 exercised thereby.
12Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
13and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
