If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplines by his father?

You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline?

It is for the purpose of discipline, correction, and guidance that you are enduring. As those who by nature are sons is God dealing with you. For what son is there whom the Father does not discipline, correct, and guide?

Bear what you have to bear as "chastening" - as God's dealing with you as sons. No true son ever grows up uncorrected by his father.

You must submit to discipline. God is dealing with you as His sons. For who is the son that his father never disciplines?

1. Advice to New Believers - Neil Girrard
2. Intimidation; Lords of Darkness - Neil Girrard
3. Joy For All? - Neil Girrard
4. One Hundred and Seven Theses - Steve Camp
5. 7. The Wasp and the Church Member (Part 2); The "Church" Paradigm (a la Tozer) - Neil Girrard
6. 2. Your Father the Devil; The Sons of the Devil - Neil Girrard

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