God Disciplines His Sons
Hebrews 12:7
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
- KJV
- If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
- WEB
- It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
- ASV
- It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?
- LSV
- if you endure discipline, God bears Himself to you as to sons, for who is a son whom a father does not discipline?
- YLT
- if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?
- DBY
- Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?Elohim
- DRC
- Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons; for what son is there, whom the father doth not correct?
- GNV
- If ye endure chastening, God offereth him selfe vnto you as vnto sonnes: for what sonne is it whom the father chasteneth not?
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include ἐστιν (“is”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
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- SBLGNT: γὰρ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read γὰρ; Robinson–Pierpont add ἐστιν.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- εἰς παιδείαν ὑπομένετε· ὡς υἱοῖς ὑμῖν προσφέρεται ὁ θεός· τίς γὰρ υἱὸς ὃν οὐ παιδεύει πατήρ;
- RP2018
- Εἰς παιδείαν ὑπομένετε, ὡς υἱοῖς ὑμῖν προσφέρεται ὁ θεός· τίς γάρ ἐστιν υἱὸς ὃν οὐ παιδεύει πατήρ;
- TR-Boyd
- Εἰ παιδείαν ὑπομένετε, ὡς υἱοῖς ὑμῖν προσφέρεται ὁ Θεός· τίς γάρ ἐστιν υἱὸς ὃν οὐ παιδεύει πατήρ;
- SCR1894
- ει παιδειαν υπομενετε ως υιοις υμιν προσφερεται ο θεος τις γαρ εστιν υιος ον ου παιδευει πατηρ
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- Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.
- Deuteronomy 8:5So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
- Proverbs 13:24He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
- Proverbs 29:15A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
- Proverbs 29:17Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.
- Proverbs 23:13–14Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die. Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
- 2 Samuel 7:14I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
- Job 34:31–32Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more. Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
- 1 Samuel 3:13I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
- 1 Kings 2:24–25And now, as surely as the LORD lives—the One who established me, who set me on the throne of my father David, and who founded for me a dynasty as He promised—surely Adonijah shall be put to death today!” So King…
- 1 Samuel 2:29Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
- 1 Samuel 2:34And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.
- Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
- 1 Kings 1:6(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)
- Acts 14:22strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
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