Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Hebrews 12:5, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Proverbs 3:11
My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
- Job 5:17
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
- Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- 1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
- Psalms 94:12
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
- James 1:12
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love …
- 2 Corinthians 4:8
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
- Psalms 119:109
My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
- Psalms 118:18
The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
- Jeremiah 31:18
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, …
- Psalms 119:75
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
- Hebrews 12:3
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
More to meet God in Hebrews
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.