Therefore, know in your heart (be fully cognizant) that the Lord your God disciplines and instructs you just as a man disciplines and instructs his son.

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God, Fatherhood OfFathers, Responsibilities Ofdiscipline, in the familydiscipline, divineChastisementKnowing God, Effects Of

Punishment, By GodSonsThoughtfulnessGod Appointed AfflictionsStrictness

O Lord, correct me [along with Your people], but with mercy and in just measure—
Not in Your anger, or You will crush me and bring me to nothing.

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CorrectionChastisementNothingLet Not God Be Angry

God Requite Them!Judgementwrath

He Who disciplines and instructs the nations, shall He not punish, He Who teaches man knowledge? The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vain (empty and futile -- "only a breath).

The Lord has disciplined me severely,
But He has not given me over to death.

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ChastisementPunishment, By GodDiscipline From God

Not DyingDeath Averted

You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline? Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God's children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all]. Moreover, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we yielded [to them] and respected [them for training us]. Shall we not much more cheerfully submit to the Father of spirits and so [truly] live? read more.
For [our earthly fathers] disciplined us for only a short period of time and chastised us as seemed proper and good to them; but He disciplines us for our certain good, that we may become sharers in His own holiness.