Hebrews 12:5

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Hebrews 12:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”

7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

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Deuteronomy 4:9

Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.

Deuteronomy 4:10

The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”

Psalms 119:16

I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

Psalms 119:83

Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

Psalms 119:109

I constantly take my life in my hands, yet I do not forget Your law.

Proverbs 3:1

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.

Matthew 16:9

Do you still not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?

Matthew 16:10

Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?

Luke 24:6

He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee:

Luke 24:8

Then they remembered His words.

Hebrews 12:7

Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

Proverbs 3:11

My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;

Proverbs 3:12

for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.

Job 5:17

Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

Job 5:18

For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

Job 34:31

Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.

Psalms 94:12

Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,

Psalms 118:18

The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.

Psalms 119:75

I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

1 Corinthians 11:32

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

Revelation 3:19

Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

Hebrews 12:3

Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Hebrews 12:4

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

Joshua 7:7

“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

Joshua 7:8

O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?

Joshua 7:9

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

Joshua 7:10

But the LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?

Joshua 7:11

Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.

2 Samuel 6:7

And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God.

2 Samuel 6:8

Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah; so he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.

2 Samuel 6:9

That day David feared the LORD and asked, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”

2 Samuel 6:10

So he was unwilling to move the ark of the LORD to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

1 Chronicles 13:9

When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark, because the oxen had stumbled.

1 Chronicles 13:10

And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and He struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.

1 Chronicles 13:11

Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah; so he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.

1 Chronicles 13:12

That day David feared God and asked, “How can I ever bring the ark of God to me?”

1 Chronicles 13:13

So he did not move the ark with him to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

1 Chronicles 15:12

And he said to them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.

1 Chronicles 15:13

It was because you Levites were not with us the first time that the LORD our God burst forth in anger against us. For we did not consult Him about the proper order.”

Psalms 6:1

O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

Psalms 6:2

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.

2 Corinthians 4:8

We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;

2 Corinthians 4:9

persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

2 Corinthians 12:9

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

2 Corinthians 12:10

That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.