12:8 But if you do
not experience discipline,
something all sons
have
shared in,
then you are
illegitimate and are not sons.
9 Besides, we
have experienced
discipline from
our earthly fathers and we
respected them; shall we
not submit ourselves
all the
more to the
Father of
spirits and receive life?
10 For they
disciplined us
for a
little while as seemed good to
them,
but he does so
for our
benefit, that we may
share his holiness.
11 Now all discipline seems painful at the
time,
not joyful.
But later it
produces the
fruit of
peace and
righteousness for those
trained by it.
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