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Hebrews 12:10

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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.

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Hebrews 12:10 in other translations

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

Hebrews 12:10 · World English Bible

Hebrews 12:10 in context

  1. 8But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
  2. 9Furthermore, 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?
  3. 10For 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.
  4. 11All 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.
  5. 12Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;