58:012:006 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
and scourgeth every
son
whom he receiveth.
58:012:007 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with
you as with sons;
for
what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
58:012:008 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof
all are partakers,
then
are ye bastards, and not sons.
58:012:009 Furthermore we have had fathers of our
flesh which corrected
us,
and we gave them reverence: shall we not much
rather be in
subjection
unto the Father of spirits, and live?
58:012:010 For they verily for a few days chastened
us after their own
pleasure;
but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of
his
holiness.
58:012:011 Now no chastening for the present seemeth
to be joyous, but
grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable
fruit
of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
58:012:012 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang
down, and the feeble
knees;
58:012:013 And make straight paths for your feet,
lest that which is lame
be
turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
58:012:014 Follow peace with all men, and holiness,
without which no man
shall
see the Lord:
58:012:015 Looking diligently lest any man fail of
the grace of God; lest
any
root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby
many
be defiled;
58:012:016 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane
person, as Esau, who
for
one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
58:012:017 For ye know how that afterward, when he
would have inherited
the
blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place
of
repentance,
though he sought it carefully with tears.
58:012:018 For ye are not come unto the mount that
might be touched, and
that
burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness,
and
tempest,
58:012:019 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice
of words; which
voice
they that heard intreated that the word should not
be
spoken
to them any more:
58:012:020 (For they could not endure that which was
commanded, And if so
much
as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned,
or
thrust
through with a dart:
58:012:021 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses
said, I exceedingly
fear
and quake:)
58:012:022 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto
the city of the
living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable
company
of angels,
58:012:023 To the general assembly and church of the
firstborn, which are
written
in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the
spirits
of just men made perfect,


