5 and you have quite forgotten the encouraging words which are addressed to you as sons, and which say, »My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's discipline, and do not faint when He corrects you;

6 for those whom the Lord loves He disciplines: and He scourges every son whom He acknowledges.«

7 The sufferings that you are enduring are for your discipline. God is dealing with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

8 And if you are left without discipline, of which every true son has had a share, that shows that you are bastards, and not true sons.

9 Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?