7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom 'his' father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they indeed for a few days chastened 'us' as seemed good to them; but he for 'our' profit, that 'we' may be partakers of his holiness.
11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, 'even the fruit' of righteousness.
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