3 Think of what he went through; how he put up with so much hatred from sinners! So do not let yourselves become discouraged and give up.
4 For in your struggle against sin you have not yet had to resist to the point of being killed.
5 Have you forgotten the encouraging words which God speaks to you as his children?“My child, pay attention when the Lord corrects you,and do not be discouraged when he rebukes you.
6 Because the Lord corrects everyone he loves,and punishes everyone he accepts as a child.”
7 Endure what you suffer as being a father's punishment; your suffering shows that God is treating you as his children. Was there ever a child who was not punished by his father?
8 If you are not punished, as all his children are, it means you are not real children, but bastards.
9 In the case of our human fathers, they punished us and we respected them. How much more, then, should we submit to our spiritual Father and live!