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Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hebrews 12:7

endure: Job 34:31, Job 34:32, Proverbs 19:18, Proverbs 22:15, Proverbs 23:13, Proverbs 23:14, Proverbs 29:15, Proverbs 29:17, Acts 14:22 for what: 1 Samuel 2:29, 1 Samuel 2:34, 1 Samuel 3:13, 1 Kings 1:6, 1 Kings 2:24, 1 Kings 2:25, Proverbs 13:24, Proverbs 29:15 Reciprocal: Proverbs 3:11 - neither Micah 7:9 - bear Zechariah 1:15 - for John 11:3 - he Ephesians 6:4 - but Hebrews 12:5 - the exhortation Hebrews 12:6 - and scourgeth Hebrews 12:9 - corrected 1 Peter 1:6 - if read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 12:5

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:And yet ye seem already to have forgotten the exhortation - Wherein God speaketh to you with the utmost tenderness.Despise not thou the chastening of the Lord — Do not slight or make little of it; do not impute any affliction to chance or second causes but see and revere the hand of God in it.Neither faint when thou art... 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

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 12:7

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?Whom his father chasteneth not — When he offends. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:5

5. Ye have forgotten Perhaps this is truly a question: have ye forgotten? It then becomes a gentle, yet reproving reminder. Children Greek, sons. Chastening Inflictions intended to reform, not to punish with irrevocable retribution. The good are disciplined, the incorrigible are vindicatively punished. When we suffer let us remember our sins, and be submissive. But our author puts it better even than this. When we suffer let us see in it a proof of our divine sonship, a promise of our... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:6

6. Loveth… chasteneth Even the attacks of persecutors, though neither appointed nor approved by God, yet when they come are by him used as trials by which we, if rightly using them, are bettered, and prepared to reign with the Jesus with whom we suffer. Receiveth Accepts and treats as his son. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:7

7. If More properly an affirmation without an if: It is for discipline that ye are suffering; God is dealing with you as with sons. These Hebrew Christians were the sons, and the persecutions they endured were a divine discipline. read more

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