4. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood.
5. You have also forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons:“My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lordor lose heart when reproved by him;
6. for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines;he scourges every son he acknowledges.”
7. Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?
8. If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards.
9. Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not [then] submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?