Hebrews 12:5

They had forgotten Scripture's exhortation that addresses them as God's children: do not despise the Lord's discipline or lose heart under his reproof. Trials are to be received as a Father's loving correction.

Cross-references · 28

• Prov 3:11–12My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:
• Job 5:17–18“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
• Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
• 1 Cor 11:32But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
• Ps 94:12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;
• Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
• 2 Cor 4:8–9We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
• Ps 118:18Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
• Ps 119:109My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.
• Jer 31:18“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
• Ps 119:75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
• Heb 12:3–4For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
• Heb 12:7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
• Deut 4:9–10Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;
• Ps 6:1–2For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.
• 2 Sam 6:7–10Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God’s ark.
• Josh 7:7–11Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!
• Prov 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
• Ps 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
• Job 34:31“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
• Prov 4:5Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
• 1 Chr 15:12–13and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.
• 2 Cor 12:9–10He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
• Ps 119:83For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.
• Luke 24:6He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,
• Luke 24:8They remembered his words,
• 1 Chr 13:9–13When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
• Matt 16:9–10Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

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