3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don`t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;
5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with sons, "My son, don`t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him;
6For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives."
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?