Thematic Bible: Profiting by chastisement
Thematic Bible
Privileges of saints » Profiting by chastisement
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.
They disciplined us for a few days for their own pleasure. He disciplines for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no discipline for the present seems to be joyous. In fact it seems grievous! Nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained.