Hebrews 12:7-8

Do Not Grow Weary

⁷ It is for discipline that you have to endure. _i God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? ⁸ If you are left without discipline, _j in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 8:5
   Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.
   2 Samuel 7:14
   I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men.
   Proverbs 13:24
   Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
   Proverbs 19:18
   Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.
   Proverbs 23:13
   Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Peter 5:9
   Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.