# Endure suffering as discipline

"Understand that during suffering God teaches us discipline"

# God deals with you as with sons

The readers are God's sons, and so God deals with them the way a father properly deals with sons.

# sons ... son

All occurrences of these words may be stated to include males and females. Alternate translation: "children ... child" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-gendernotations]])

# what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

The author makes the point throught this question that every good father disciplines his children. This can be expressed as a statement. Alternate translation: "every father disciplines his children!" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])