Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect.
Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,