7. Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons; for what son is there, whom the father doth not correct?
8. But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
9. Moreover we have had fathers of our flesh, for instructors, and we reverenced them: shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits, and live?
10. And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.
11. Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield, to them that are exercised by it, the most peaceable fruit of justice.
12. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
13. And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.
14. Follow peace with all men, and holiness: without which no man shall see God.
15. Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder, and by it many be defiled.
16. Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau; who for one mess, sold his first birthright.
17. For know ye that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, although with tears he had sought it.