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?
10. They disciplined us for a short time as seemed right to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we may share his holiness.
11. At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.
12. So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.
13. Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed.
14. Strive for peace with everyone, and for that holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
15. See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled,