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Hebrews 12:9

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Furthermore, 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?

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Hebrews 12:9 in other translations

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Hebrews 12:9 · American Standard Version

Hebrews 12:9 in context

  1. 7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
  2. 8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
  3. 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?
  4. 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.
  5. 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 trained by it.