For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV 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.
- BSB Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.
- NASB For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.
- NLT For 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.
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Earthly fathers disciplined us briefly as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. God's correction aims at our highest benefit.
Overview
Comparing human and divine discipline, the author notes that parents acted for a short time and by fallible judgment, while God acts unerringly for our true profit. The goal of his discipline is that we may become "partakers of his holiness"—conformed to his own character. God's loving aim in hardship is our sanctification, not our harm.
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- 2 Pet 1:4by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
- Lev 11:44–45For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
- Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Ezek 36:25–27I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- Eph 5:26–27that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
- Lev 19:2“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
- Eph 4:24and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
- Col 1:22yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
- Ps 17:15As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
- 1 Pet 1:15–16but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
- 1 Pet 2:5You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- Heb 12:5–6and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
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