希伯来书 12:10

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

肉身的父親照著自己的意思管教我們，只有短暫的日子；唯有　神管教我們，是為著我們的好處，使我們在他的聖潔上有分。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
生 身 的 父 都 是 暂 随 己 意 管 教 我 们 ； 惟 有 万 灵 的 父 管 教 我 们 ， 是 要 我 们 得 益 处 ， 使 我 们 在 他 的 圣 洁 上 有 分 。

Contextual Overview

⁴ You are struggling against sin, but your struggles have not yet caused you to be killed. ⁵ You have forgotten the encouraging words that call you his children: "My child, don't think the Lord's discipline is worth nothing, and don't stop trying when he corrects you. ⁶ The Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as his child." Proverbs 3:11–12 ⁷ So hold on through your sufferings, because they are like a father's discipline. God is treating you as children. All children are disciplined by their fathers. ⁸ If you are never disciplined (and every child must be disciplined), you are not true children. ⁹ We have all had fathers here on earth who disciplined us, and we respected them. So it is even more important that we accept discipline from the Father of our spirits so we will have life. ¹⁰ Our fathers on earth disciplined us for a short time in the way they thought was best. But God disciplines us to help us, so we can become holy as he is. ¹¹ We do not enjoy being disciplined. It is painful at the time, but later, after we have learned from it, we have peace, because we start living in the right way. ¹² You have become weak, so make yourselves strong again. ¹³ Keep on the right path, so the weak will not stumble but rather be strengthened.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

after their own pleasure: or, as seemed good, or meet, to them

but he: Hebrews 12:5, Hebrews 12:6

partakers: Leviticus 11:44, Leviticus 11:45, Leviticus 19:2, Psalms 17:15, Ezekiel 36:25-27, Ephesians 4:24, Ephesians 5:26, Ephesians 5:27, Colossians 1:22, Titus 2:14, 1 Peter 1:15, 1 Peter 1:16, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:9, 2 Peter 1:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:17 - ward Deuteronomy 8:16 - to do thee Judges 14:14 - Out of the eater Ruth 1:3 - and she was 2 Samuel 16:12 - requite Job 37:23 - he will Psalms 97:12 - give thanks Psalms 118:18 - chastened Psalms 119:67 - but now Psalms 119:71 - good Psalms 119:75 - thou in Psalms 149:4 - beautify Proverbs 20:30 - stripes Proverbs 22:15 - but Proverbs 27:6 - the wounds Proverbs 29:15 - General Ecclesiastes 7:3 - by Isaiah 38:16 - General Isaiah 48:10 - I have refined Lamentations 3:33 - afflict Daniel 12:10 - shall be Malachi 3:3 - sit Luke 11:13 - know John 15:2 - and Romans 5:3 - knowing 2 Corinthians 1:6 - effectual 2 Corinthians 4:17 - worketh Hebrews 2:16 - verily Hebrews 3:14 - we are Hebrews 12:11 - nevertheless Hebrews 12:14 - and holiness

Cross-References

Genesis 12:1
The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land I will show you.

Genesis 12:2
I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you. I will make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.

Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and I will place a curse on those who harm you. And all the people on earth will be blessed through you."

Genesis 12:4
So Abram left Haran as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. At this time Abram was 75 years old.

Genesis 12:8
Then he traveled from Shechem to the mountain east of Bethel and set up his tent there. Bethel was to the west, and Ai was to the east. There Abram built another altar to the Lord and worshiped him.

Genesis 12:18
So the king sent for Abram and said, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me Sarai was your wife?

Genesis 42:5
Along with many other people, the sons of Israel went to Egypt to buy grain, because the people in the land of Canaan were also hungry.

Genesis 43:1
Still no food grew in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 47:13
The hunger became worse, and since there was no food anywhere in the land, Egypt and Canaan became very poor.

Ruth 1:1
Long ago when the judges ruled Israel, there was a shortage of food in the land.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they verily for a few days chastened us,.... Which respects not the minority of children, during which time they are under the correction of parents, and which is but a few days; nor the short life of parents; but rather the end which parents have in chastening their children, which is their temporal good, and which lasts but for a few days; which sense the opposition in the latter part of the text requires: and this they do

after their own pleasure: not to please and delight themselves in the pains and cries of their children, which would be brutish and inhuman; though corrections are too often given to gratify the passions; nor merely in an arbitrary way, and when they please; but the sense is, they correct as seems good unto them; in the best way and manner; to the best of their judgments, which are fallible:

but he for our profit; saints are no losers by afflictions; they lose nothing but their dross and tin; they do not lose the love of God; nor their interest in the covenant of grace; nor the presence of God; nor grace in their own hearts; nor spiritual peace and comfort: on the contrary, they are real gainers by them; their graces gain by them fresh lustre and glory; they obtain a greater degree of spiritual knowledge; and a larger stock of experience; and are hereby restored to their former state, duty, and zeal; and become more conformable to Christ; yea, their afflictions conduce to their future glory; many are the profits arising from them. The Alexandrian copy reads in the plural number, "profits": particularly God's end in chastening of his children is,

that we might be partakers of his holiness; not the essential holiness of God, which is incommunicable; but a communicative holiness of his, which it is his determining will his people should have: it comes from him, from whom every good and perfect gift does; it is in Christ for them, and is received out of his fulness; and is wrought in them by the Spirit; and it bears a resemblance to the divine nature: now men are naturally destitute of this holiness; they have it not by nature, but by participation; as God's gift; and they first partake of it in regeneration; and here an increase of it is designed, a gradual participation of it; and it may include perfect holiness in heaven: afflictions are designed as means to bring persons to this end; to bring them to a sense of sin, an acknowledgment of it, an aversion to it, and to a view of pardon of it; to purge it away; to wean the saints from this world; to increase their grace, and lead them on to a perfect state of glory, where there will be no more sin, and no more sorrow.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they verily for a few days - That is, with reference to a few days (πρὸς pros}; or it was a chastisement that had reference mainly to this short life. The apostle seems to bring in this circumstance to contrast the dealings of earthly parents with those of God. One of the circumstances is, that the corrections of earthly parents had a much less important object than those of God. They related to this life - a life so brief that it may be said to continue but a “few days.” Yet, in order to secure the benefit to be derived for so short a period from fatherly correction, we submitted without complaining. Much more cheerfully ought we to submit to that discipline from the hand of our heavenly Father which is designed to extend its benefits through eternity. This seems to me to afford a better sense than that adopted by Prof. Stuart and others, that it means “during our childhood or minority;” or than that proposed by Doddridge, that it refers both to our earthly parents and to our heavenly Father.

After their own pleasure - Margin, “as seemed good, or meet to them.” Meaning that it was sometimes done arbitrarily, or from caprice, or under the influence of passion. This is an additional reason why we should submit to God. We submitted to our earthly parents, though their correction was sometimes passionate, and was designed to gratify their own pleasure rather than to promote our good. There is much of this kind of punishment in families; but there is none of it under the administration of God.

But he for our profit - Never from passion, from caprice, from the love of power or superiority, but always for our good. The exact benefit which he designs to produce we may not be able always to understand, but we may be assured that no other cause influences him than a desire to promote our real welfare, and as he can never be mistaken in regard to the proper means to secure that, we may be assured that our trials are always adapted to that end.

That we might be partakers of his holiness - Become so holy that it may be said that we are partakers of the very holiness of God; compare 2 Peter 1:4. This is the elevated object at which God aims by our trials. It is not that he delights to produce pain; not that he envies us and would rob us of our little comforts; not that he needs what we prize to increase his own enjoyment, and therefore rudely takes it away; and not that he acts from caprice - now conferring a blessing and then withdrawing it without any reason: it is, that he may make us more pure and holy, and thus promote our own best interest. To be holy as God is holy; to be so holy that it may be said that we “are partakers of his holiness,” is a richer blessing than health, and property, and friends, without it; and when by the exchange of the one we acquire the other, we have secured infinitely more than we have lost. To obtain the greater good we should be willing to part with the less; to secure the everlasting friendship and favour of God we should be willing, if necessary, to surrender the last farthing of our property; the last friend that is left us; the last feeble and fluttering pulsation of life in our veins.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 12:10. For - a few days — The chastisement of our earthly parents lasted only a short time; that of our heavenly Father will also be but a short time, if we submit: and as our parents ceased to correct when we learned obedience; so will our heavenly Father when the end for which he sent the chastisement is accomplished. God delights not in the rod; judgment is his strange work.