5And 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:
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My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: …
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: …
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
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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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