4. You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5. And you have forgotten the appeal which speaks to you as to sons, “My son, do not despise the discipline of יהוה, nor faint when you are reproved by Him,
6. for whom יהוה loves, He disciplines, and flogs every son whom He receives.”
7. If you endure discipline, Elohim is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline?
8. But if you are without discipline, of which all have become sharers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
9. Moreover, we indeed had fathers of our flesh disciplining us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
10. For they indeed disciplined us for a few days as seemed best to them, but He does it for our profit, so that we might share His apartness.
11. And indeed, no discipline seems pleasant at the time, but grievous, but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12. So, strengthen the hands which hang down and the weak knees,
13. and make straight paths for your feet, lest the lame be turned aside, but instead, to be healed.
14. Pursue peace with all, and pursue apartness without which no one shall see the Master.
15. See to it that no one falls short of the favour of Elohim, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, by which many become defiled,