5 And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not {the} chastening of {the} Lord, nor faint {when} reproved by him;
6 for whom {the} Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?
8 But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced {them}; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?