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希伯来书 12:7

為了接受管教,你們要忍受,因為 神待你們好像待兒子一樣;哪有兒子不受父親管教的呢?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adoption;   Afflictions and Adversities;   Chastisement;   Parents;   Perseverance;   Resignation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Endurance;   Promises, Divine;   Steadfastness;   Steadfastness-Instability;   The Topic Concordance - Chastisement;   Endurance;   Partaking;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Adoption;   Afflictions;   Parents;   Reproof;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Assurance;   Backsliding;   Chastisement;   Family;   Father;   Love;   Parents;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Discipline;   Endurance;   Providence of God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Adoption;   Faithfulness of God;   Wisdom of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Adoption;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bastards;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Discipline;   Evil;   Hebrews;   Judgment Day;   Perseverance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Children (Sons) of God;   Evil;   Hebrews, Epistle to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Chastisement;   Children of God, Sons of God;   Comfort;   Discipline;   Discipline (2);   Evil;   Grief ;   Hebrews Epistle to the;   Love;   Numbers;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Chastening;   Impute, to,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bastard;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chastening;   Discipline;   Jehoiada;   Love;   Sons of God (New Testament);  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for June 16;   Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 23;   Every Day Light - Devotion for May 6;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 所 忍 受 的 , 是 神 管 教 你 们 , 待 你 们 如 同 待 儿 子 。 焉 有 儿 子 不 被 父 亲 管 教 的 呢 ?

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

endure: Job 34:31, Job 34:32, Proverbs 19:18, Proverbs 22:15, Proverbs 23:13, Proverbs 23:14, Proverbs 29:15, Proverbs 29:17, Acts 14:22

for what: 1 Samuel 2:29, 1 Samuel 2:34, 1 Samuel 3:13, 1 Kings 1:6, 1 Kings 2:24, 1 Kings 2:25, Proverbs 13:24, Proverbs 29:15

Reciprocal: Proverbs 3:11 - neither Micah 7:9 - bear Zechariah 1:15 - for John 11:3 - he Ephesians 6:4 - but Hebrews 12:5 - the exhortation Hebrews 12:6 - and scourgeth Hebrews 12:9 - corrected 1 Peter 1:6 - if

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord . He took some of all the clean birds and animals, and he burned them on the altar as offerings to God.
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 12:9
After this, he traveled on toward southern Canaan.
Genesis 12:12
When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This woman is his wife.' Then they will kill me but let you live.
Genesis 13:4
and where he had built an altar. So he worshiped the Lord there.
Genesis 13:15
All this land that you see I will give to you and your descendants forever.
Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at the city of Hebron. There he built an altar to the Lord .
Genesis 15:18
So on that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram and said, "I will give to your descendants the land between the river of Egypt and the great river Euphrates.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty. Obey me and do what is right.
Genesis 17:3
Then Abram bowed facedown on the ground. God said to him,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If ye endure chastening,.... In faith, with patience, with courage and constancy, with humility and reverence: there are many things which may encourage and animate the saints to endure it in such a manner; as that it is but a chastening, and the chastening of a father; it should be considered from whence it comes, and for what ends; that it comes from the Lord, and is for his glory, and their good; the example of Christ, and of other saints, should excite unto it. The Jews have a saying q, that

"the doctrine of chastisements is silence;''

that is, they are to be patiently bore, and not murmured at. The Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions, read the words as an exhortation; the former of these renders it, "persevere in discipline"; the Syriac version, "endure correction"; the Arabic version, "be ye patient in chastisement"; and the Ethiopic version, "endure your chastening": but then the word, "for", should be supplied in the next clause, as it is in the Syriac and Ethiopic versions, making that to be a reason, enforcing this,

for God dealeth with you as with sons: chastening is owning of them for his children, and it discovers them to be so, and shows that they continue such; he does not chasten them but when it is necessary; and whenever he does, it is in love and mercy, and for good, and in the best time, seasonably, and in measure:

for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? no one can be named, not the Son of God himself; he had the chastisement of our peace upon him; nor the more eminent among the children of God, as Abraham, David, and others; nor any in any catalogue, or list of them, such as in the preceding chapter; not one in any age or period of time whatever, in any bodies, societies, or communities of them, either under the Old or New Testament.

q T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 62. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If ye endure chastening - That is, if you undergo, or are called to experience correction. It does not mean here, “if you endure it patiently; or if you bear up under it;” but “if you are chastised or corrected by God.” The affirmation does not relate to the manner of bearing it, but to the fact that we are disciplined.

God dealeth with you as with sons - He does not cast you off and regard you as if you were in no way related to him.

For what son is he whom the father chasteneth not - That is, he evinces toward his son the care which shows that he sustains the relation of a father. If he deserves correction, he corrects him; and he aims by all proper means to exhibit the appropriate care and character of a father. And as we receive such attention from an earthly parent, we ought to expect to receive similar notice from our Father in heaven.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 12:7. If ye endure chastening — If ye submit to his authority, humble yourselves under his hand, and pray for his blessing, you will find that he deals with you as beloved children, correcting you that he may make you partakers of his holiness.

God dealeth with you as with sons — He acknowledges by this that you belong to the family, and that he, as your Father, has you under proper discipline. It is a maxim among the Jewish rabbins that "the love which is not conjoined with reproof is not genuine."


 
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