希伯来书12:3-11
3那忍受罪人这样顶撞的，你们要思想，免得疲倦灰心。4你们与罪恶相争，还没有抵挡到流血的地步。5你们又忘了那劝你们如同劝儿子的话，说，我儿，你不可轻看主的管教，被他责备的时候，也不可灰心。6因为主所爱的他必管教，又鞭打凡所收纳的儿子。7你们所忍受的，是神管教你们，待你们如同待儿子。焉有儿子不被父亲管教的呢？8管教原是众子所共受的，你们若不受管教，就是私子，不是儿子了。9再者，我们曾有生身的父管教我们，我们尚且敬重他，何况万灵的父，我们岂不更当顺服他得生吗？10生身的父都是暂随己意管教我们。惟有万灵的父管教我们，是要我们得益处，使我们在他的圣洁上有分。11凡管教的事，当时不觉得快乐，反觉得愁苦。后来却为那经练过的人，结出平安的果子，就是义。
3Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people;#12:3 Some manuscripts read Think of how people hurt themselves by opposing him. then you won’t become weary and give up. 4After all, you have not yet given your lives in your struggle against sin. 5And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as his children?#12:5a Greek sons; also in 12:7, 8. He said,“My child,#12:5b Greek son; also in 12:6, 7. don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline,and don’t give up when he corrects you. 6For the Lord disciplines those he loves,and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”#12:5-6 Prov 3:11-12 (Greek version). 7As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father? 8If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. 9Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn’t we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever?#12:9 Or and really live? 10For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness. 11No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.
