Constructive Chastening: Hebrews Series - 17

Tune: England's Lane

('For the beauty of the earth')

Hebrews 12 v.5 - 11

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And have you here forgotten

The word, the exhortation?

Which speaks to you as children

Hear my child, you are my son

Despise not the chastening

Of the Lord in anything

 

Nor faint when you are rebuked

Of Him, nor be discouraged

For whom he loves he chastens

And too each son He scourges

If you chastening endure

God deals with you as sons sure

 

For what son there be, who he

His father chastens not, see

But if you are not chastised

Your true sonship is denied

For all partakers are we

Of this, so God deigns it be

 

For our fathers, who human

Corrected us, e'en each one

And we gave them reverence

So shall we not as from hence

To the Father of spirits

Be subject as it befits?

 

Our fathers for a few days

Chastened us as seemed their ways

Right to do, for their pleasure

Yet God as to His measure

Chastens us, to for us bless

That we share His holiness

 

Now no chastening does seem

Joyous, we do not it deem

At the present seems grievous

Nevertheless it yields us

Afterwards the peaceful fruit

Of righteousness follows suit