Hebrews 12:11

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 12:9-17

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESHebrews 12:9. Father of spirits.—See Numbers 16:22; Numbers 27:16; Zechariah 12:1. “The Creator of all spirits, who is the Giver of life to all, who knows the spirit which He has made, and can discipline it by chastening.”Hebrews 12:12. Lift up the hands.—Lit. “straighten out the relaxed hands and the palsied knees” (Isaiah 35:3).Hebrews 12:15. Root of bitterness.—See Deuteronomy 29:18.Hebrews 12:16. Fornicator.—The Scriptures do not thus describe Esau. Farrar... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:3-13

Hebrews 12:3-13 I. Chastisement is sent by fatherly love. There, where we are most sensitive, God touches us. The thorn in the flesh is something which we fancy we cannot bear if it were to be lifelong. We have emerged, as it were, out of a dark tunnel, and fancy that the rest of our journey will be amid sunlit fields. We have achieved steep and rugged ascents, and imagine the period of great and exhausting exertion is over. The trial deepest and sorest seems to leave us for a while, yet it... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 12:4-13

DISCOURSE: 2336AFFLICTIONS THE FRUIT OF GOD’S LOVEHebrews 12:4-13. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth, not? But... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Hebrews 12:11

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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:1-29

Shall we turn now to Hebrews, chapter 12.Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses ( Hebrews 12:1 ),What this does not mean is that the Old Testament saints, which are spoken of in chapter 11, are sitting there in heaven watching the activities on the earth. It doesn't mean that they are just watching us to see how we are going to react and respond and we've got this big gallery up here of Old Testament saints. It does mean that their life of faith and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 12:1-29

Hebrews 12:1 . Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course, and we are here called upon to follow these veterans of the faith. Their number is such that they are said to be a cloud, like the assembled multitudes seen on special occasions to witness some extraordinary spectacle. Nor is it the celestial host only that are interested in this contest; we are... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 12:11

Hebrews 12:11Afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousnessSweet fruit from a thorny tree:When our heavenly Father “puts His hand into the bitter box” and weighs out to us a portion of wormwood and gall in the form of bodily pain, we very naturally ask the reason why.Nature suggests the question at times in petulance, and gets no answer; faith only asks it with bated breath, and gains a gracious reply. I. PAIN TEACHES US OUR NOTHINGNESS. Health permits us to swell in self-esteem,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hebrews 12:11

11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Ver. 11. The peaceable fruit of righteousness ] That crown of righteousness wrought out unto us by afflictions,2 Corinthians 4:17; 2 Corinthians 4:17 , These are the preludes of our triumph, yea, a part of our salvation. Look therefore through the anger of God’s corrections, saith one, to the sweetness of his... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hebrews 12:11

no chastening: Psalms 89:32, Psalms 118:18, Proverbs 15:10, Proverbs 19:18 nevertheless: Hebrews 12:5, Hebrews 12:6, Hebrews 12:10 peaceable: Psalms 119:165, Isaiah 32:17, Romans 5:3-Deuteronomy :, Romans 14:17, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Galatians 5:22, Galatians 5:23, James 3:17, James 3:18 exercised: Hebrews 5:14, 1 Timothy 4:7, 1 Timothy 4:8, 2 Peter 2:14,*Gr. Reciprocal: Genesis 21:11 - because Deuteronomy 8:16 - to do thee Judges 14:14 - Out of the eater Ruth 1:3 - and she was Ruth 1:20 -... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 12:11

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.Now all chastening — Whether from our earthly or heavenly Father, Is for the present grievous, yet it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness - Holiness and happiness.To them that are exercised thereby — That receive this exercise as from God, and improve it according to his will. read more