7 Endure suffering as discipline: God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline — which all receive  * 12:8 Lit discipline, of which all have become participants  — then you are illegitimate children and not sons.  * 12:7–8 Dt 8:5; 1Pt 5:99 Furthermore, we had human fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn’t we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live?  * 12:9 Nm 16:22; Is 38:1610 For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but he does it for our benefit, so that we can share his holiness.  * 12:10 Lv 11:44; 2Pt 1:4