Study it in the app“Besides, we had the fathers of our flesh as those who disciplined us, and we respected them; shall we not much more submit to the Father of spirits and live?”
God disciplines as a father does his children, and it bears fruit laterParents and ChildrenThe author of Hebrews compares God’s discipline to a father’sSuffering and Trials
Besides,εἶταwe hadεἴχομενthe fathersτοὺς πατέραςof our fleshτῆς σαρκὸς ἡμῶνas those who disciplined us,παιδευτὰςandκαὶwe respected them;ἐνετρεπόμεθαshall we notοὐmuchπολὺmoreμᾶλλονsubmitὑποταγησόμεθαto the Fatherτῷ πατρὶof spiritsτῶν πνευμάτωνandκαὶlive?ζήσομεν
then
Then, next.
Where else “eita” appearshave
To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.
Where else “eichomen” appearsparents
A family's father; sometimes father and mother.
Where else “pateras” appearsflesh
The soft part of the body, of people or animals; also the body itself.
Where else “sarkos” appearsdisciplinarian
One who corrects in order to train, as a father his children.
Where else “paideutas” appearsrespect
To show regard for someone.
Where else “enetrepometha” appearsmore
Abundantly, often, or to a still higher degree.
Where else “poly” appearsmore
To a greater degree; how much more, when comparing.
Where else “mallon” appearssubmit
To obey, place oneself under another.
Where else “hypotagēsometha” appearsspirit
A person's spirit, their inner self.
Where else “pneumatōn” appearslive
To have life in the body, or receive it again after dying.
Where else “zēsomen” appears8But if you are without discipline, in which all have become sharers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
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10For they disciplined us for a few days as seemed best to them, but he does so for our good, so that we may share in his holiness.
