4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, fighting against sin.
5. And ye have quite forgotten the consolation which speaks unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art reproved of him:
6. for whom the Lord loves, he chastens and scourges everyone whom he receives as a son.
7. If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?
8. But if ye are without chastisement, of which all the sons are partakers, then ye are bastards, and not sons.