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It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with sons, for what son is there whom his father doesn`t discipline?
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Reframe Hardship as Discipline
Commentators agree that this verse calls Christians to reframe their suffering. Instead of seeing hardship as random misfortune or a sign of God's rejection, it should be understood as purposeful, loving discipline. God is not casting you off; He is treating you "as with sons," which was universally understood to include correction.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If ye endure chastening. That is, if you undergo, or are called to experience correction. It does not mean here, "if you endure it patient…
That ye endure (υπομενετε). Present active indicative or present active imperative and so just "endure for chastening."
19th Century
Anglican
If you endure chastening.—The whole weight of ancient evidence is in favour of a change in the first Greek word. Two tran…
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Baptist
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint …
It is not as misery, accident, or the like that Christians should understand suffering but “as discipline.” God uses it to teach important lessons;…
16th Century
Protestant
For what son is he, etc. He reasons from the common practice of men that it is by no means right or proper that God’s children should be e…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If you endure chastening In faith, with patience, with courage and constancy, with humility and reverence: there are…
The persevering obedience of faith in Christ was the race set before the Hebrews, in which they must either win the crown of glory, or have everlas…
13th Century
Catholic
Having exhorted them to endure evil patiently, according to the example of the ancient fathers and Christ, the Apostle now exhorts them to do the s…
