“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Hebrews 12 contains 29 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.