8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
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For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. …
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. …
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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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