Heb 12:6-11 | Family

Hebrews 12:6-11

Chastening; trials designed to correct your faults and make you better. All; the children of God.

Are ye bastards; treated as such; your faults are not corrected, but you are left to go unreformed to ruin. Fathers of our flesh; earthly parents.

Father of spirits; God. After their own pleasure; as they chose or thought best.

Be partakers; become holy like him. God never sends trials because he has any pleasure in afflicting his people, but to make them more useful and happy than they would be without them. Hence a cheerful and hearty submission is required not only by the glory of God, but by our own highest good. The peaceable fruit of righteousness; the chastisement yields, like a good tree, the good fruit of righteousness, which always has for its companion "the peace of God which passeth all understanding." Php 4:7.