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Hebrews 12:10 KJV
Hebrews · chapter 12 · verse 10
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.Hebrews 12:10 · King James Version
Hebrews 12:10 in context
8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11Now 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.
12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
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Key words (Strong's)
- chastenedpaideuōto train children, to be instructed or taught or learn, to cause one to learn, to…G3811 →
- partakersmetalambanōto be or to be made a partner, to partake of, take [some] food, of a thing, to get, findG3335 →
- pleasuredokeōto be of opinion, think, suppose, to seem, to be accounted, reputed, it seems to me, I…G1380 →
- verilymentruly, certainly, surely, indeedG3303 →
- profitsympherōto bear or bring together, to bear together or at the same time, to carry with others, to…G4851 →
- afterkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
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Here the apostle presses the exhortation to patience and perseverance by an argument taken from the gentle measure and gracious nature of those sufferings which the believing Hebrews endured in their Christian course. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-17