7. Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?
8. If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards.
9. Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not [then] submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?
10. They disciplined us for a short time as seemed right to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we may share his holiness.