5 «Besides, have you forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children,» 'My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's chastisement, neither faint when you are rebuked by him:'
6 «for whom the Lord loves he chastises, and scourges every son whom he receives.»
7 If you endure chastisement, God deals with you as his children. For what son is there whom his father does not chastise?
8 But if you be without chastisement, of which all sons are partakers, certainly you are bastards, and not sons.
9 Farther, we have had fathers of our flesh, who chastised us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?