Discovery BoxHebrews 12:5 
Context12:5 And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons?
“My son, do not scorn 1 the Lord’s discipline
or give up when he corrects 2 you.
Hebrews 12:7-8
Context12:7 Endure your suffering 3 as discipline; 4 God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline? 12:8 But if you do not experience discipline, 5 something all sons 6 have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.
Hebrews 12:11
Context12:11 Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. 7 But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness 8 for those trained by it.
1 tn Or “disregard,” “think little of.”
2 tn Or “reproves,” “rebukes.” The Greek verb ἐλέγχω (elencw) implies exposing someone’s sin in order to bring correction.
3 tn Grk “endure,” with the object (“your suffering”) understood from the context.
4 tn Or “in order to become disciplined.”
5 tn Grk “you are without discipline.”
6 tn Grk “all”; “sons” is implied by the context.
7 tn Grk “all discipline at the time does not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow.”
8 tn Grk “the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
