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17 lines
722 B
Markdown
# Endure suffering as discipline
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"Understand that during suffering God teaches us discipline"
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# God deals with you as with sons
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The readers are God's sons, and so God deals with them the way a father properly deals with sons.
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# sons ... son
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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]])
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# what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
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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]])
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