4. For you have not yet resisted unto blood, while striving against sin.
5. And you have forgotten the consolation which speaks to you like sons, saying: "My son, do not be willing to neglect the discipline of the Lord. Neither should you become weary, while being rebuked by him."
6. For whomever the Lord loves, he chastises. And every son whom he accepts, he scourges.
7. Persevere in discipline. God presents you to himself as sons. But what son is there, whom his father does not correct?
8. But if you are without that discipline in which all have become sharers, then you are of adultery, and you are not sons.
9. Then, too, we have certainly had the fathers of our flesh as instructors, and we reverenced them. Should we not obey the Father of spirits all the more, and so live?