39And all these, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise; 40God having provided something better concerning us, that they should not without us be made perfect.
XII. Therefore, let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding, us, lay aside every weight, and the easily besetting sin, and with patience run the race that is set before us, 2looking away to the author and finisher of the faith, Jesus; who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God. 3For consider him who has endured such contradiction by sinners against him, that ye become not weary, fainting in your souls.
4Not yet did ye resist unto blood, contending against sin; 5and ye have forgotten the exhortation, which discourses with you as with sons:
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord,
Nor faint when reproved by him;
6For whom the Lord loves he chastens,
And scourges every son whom he receives.
7If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chastens not? 8But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9Furthermore, we had fathers of our flesh, who chastened us, and we gave them reverence; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? 10For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11Now all chastening for the present indeed seems not joyous, but grievous; but afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness, to those who have been exercised thereby.