11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
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And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; …
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
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 when thou art rebuked of him: …
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-17)Here the apostle presses the exhortation to patience and perseverance by an argument taken from the gentle measure and gracious nature of those sufferings which the believing Hebrews endured in their Christian course. I. From the gentle and moderate degree and measure of their sufferings: You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin , Heb. 12:4. Observe, 1. He owns that they had suff…
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