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It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with sons, for what son is there whom his father doesn`t discipline?
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But if you are without discipline, whereof all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not sons.
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Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
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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.