Hebrews 12:7-8

“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.”

"If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons." - Hebrews 12:7-8
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The passage Hebrews 12:7-8 from the King James Version of the Bible states, “If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not…

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Hebrews 12:7-8 - "Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not disciplined - and everyone undergoes discipline - then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all."
Hebrews 12:8
Hebrews 7:12 - "For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law."
Hebrews 8:12 - "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more."
Hebrews 8:7 - "For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second."
Hebrews 7:8 - "And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth."
Hebrews 12:7 - "If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?"
"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." - Hebrews 8:12
"For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law." - Hebrews 7:12
"But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons." - Hebrews 12:8
"For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second." - Hebrews 8:7
"And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth." - Hebrews 7:8
Hebrews 8:5
Hebrews 7:7 - "And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better."
Hebrews 8:1-5
Hebrews 12:12 - "Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;"
"If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?" - Hebrews 12:7
Hebrews 12:29 - "For our God is a consuming fire."
Hebrews 13:8 - "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."
Hebrews 3:8 - "Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:"
Hebrews 7:20 - "And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:"
The Plague of Boils - Exodus 9:8-12.
"And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." - Hebrews 7:7
Hebrews 12:21 - "And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)"
Hebrews 12:4 - "Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin."
Hebrews 4:12 – "For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword."
"For our God is a consuming fire." - Hebrews 12:29
Hebrews 7:24 - "But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood."
Hebrews 7:22 - "By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament."