Thematic Bible: In rendering us fruitful in good works
Thematic Bible
Afflictions made beneficial » In rendering us fruitful in good works
For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.