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Hebrews 12:10

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For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

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  1. Hebrews 12:8

    But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

  2. Hebrews 12:9

    Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

  3. Hebrews 12:11

    Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

  4. Hebrews 12:12

    Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

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