Hebrews 12:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Hebrews 12:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 19:18
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Deuteronomy 8:5
Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs 29:15
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Proverbs 29:17
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

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Commentary

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 suffe…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. In He 12:7, 8 the need of “chastening” or “discipline” is inculcated; in He 12:9, the duty of those to whom it is administered. If--The oldest manuscripts read, “With a view to chastening (that is, since God’s chastisement is with a view to your chastening, that is, disciplinary amelioration) endure patiently”; so Vulgate. Alford translates it as indicative, not so well, “It is for chastisement…