5 And have you forgotten the exhortation which addresses you as sons? »My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,nor lose courage when you are rebuked by him.

6 For those whom the Lord loves he disciplines,and he scourges every son whom he receives.«

7 It is for discipline that you endure. God is treating you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

9 Besides this, we have had fathers of our flesh to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?