Hebrews 12:6

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 12:3-8

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESHebrews 12:3. Consider.—Place your sufferings in comparison with His. Against Himself.—R.V. renders “against themselves,” which is a well-supported reading. Wearied.—R.V. renders “that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.” Stuart renders, “lest, becoming discouraged in your minds, ye grow weary.”Hebrews 12:4. Unto blood.—The last extremity; the surrender of life. Implying that Christ had so resisted. From this we infer that there had been no actual martyrs... 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 12:6

Lord Jehovah. Proverbs 3:12. read more

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 12:5-6

Hebrews 12:5-6Despise not thou the chastening of the LordHow to bear afflictionsThe proposition that ariseth from the words is this: It is the duty and best wisdom of afflicted Christians to preserve themselves from the vicious extremes of despising the Schastenings of the Lord, or fainting under them.I. To “DESPISE THE CHASTENINGS OF THE LORD,” imports the “making no account of them,” as unworthy of serious regard, and includes inconsiderateness of mind, and an insensibleness of heart. 1.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hebrews 12:6

6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Ver. 6. For whom the Lord loves ] Whom he entirely loveth and cockereth above the rest of his children. That son in whom he is well pleased, saith Mercer onProverbs 3:12; Proverbs 3:12 , whom he makes his white boy, saith Theophylact here. See my Love Tokens. And scourgeth every son ] Lays upon them hard and heavy strokes. When Ignatius came to the wild beasts, Now, saith he, I begin to be a Christian. ... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hebrews 12:6

whom: Deuteronomy 8:5, Psalms 32:1-Deuteronomy :, Psalms 73:14, Psalms 73:15, Psalms 89:30-Nahum :, Psalms 119:71, Psalms 119:75, Proverbs 3:12, Proverbs 13:24, Isaiah 27:9, Jeremiah 10:24, James 1:12, James 5:11, Revelation 3:19 and scourgeth: Hebrews 12:7, Hebrews 12:8, 2 Samuel 7:14 Reciprocal: Exodus 1:12 - But the more Deuteronomy 4:22 - General Ruth 1:3 - and she was 1 Samuel 30:3 - burned 2 Samuel 12:14 - the child 2 Samuel 24:12 - that I may 1 Kings 1:6 - had not 2 Chronicles 20:37... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 12:6

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.For — All springs from love; therefore neither despise nor faint. read more