49 Bible Verses about discipline, divine
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For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence; We looking not at things seen, but at things not seen: for things seen, temporary; and things not seen, eternal
And know thou with thy heart that as a man will chastise his son, Jehovah thy God chastises thee.
For I reckon that the sufferings of the time now not worthy of the glory about to be revealed in us.
All the commands which I command thee this day ye shall watch to do, so that ye shall live and multiply and go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware to your. fathers. And remember thou all the way which Jehovah thy God caused thee to go this forty years in the desert in order to humble thee, to try thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou shalt watch his commands or not And he will humble thee, and cause thee to hunger, and will give thee to eat manna which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; so that he caused thee to know that upon bread only man shall not live, but upon all going out of the mouth of Jehovah shall man live.read more.
Thy garments decayed not from thee, and thy feet swelled not this forty years. And know thou with thy heart that as a man will chastise his son, Jehovah thy God chastises thee.
Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.
I will be to him for father, and he shall be to me for son; who in his sinning I struck him with the rod of men, and with the blows of the sons of men.
And know ye this day, that not with your sons who knew not, and who saw not the corrections of Jehovah your God, his greatness, his strong hand and his extended arm, And his signs and his doings which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land; And what he did to the army of Egypt, to his horses and to his chariots, that he caused the water of the sea of sedge to overflow upon their face in their pursuing after you, and Jehovah will destroy them even to this day;read more.
And what he did to you in the desert till your coming to this place; And what he did to Dathan and to Abiram, sons of Eliab, son of Reuben; that the earth opened her mouth and she will swallow them down, and their houses, and their tents, and every living thing which is at their feet in the midst of all Israel: For your eyes saw every great doing of Jehovah which he did.
If ye endure correction, God treats you as sons; for who is the son which the father corrects not?
Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:
And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.
Thus said Jehovah redeeming thee, the Holy One of Israel: I Jehovah thy God teaching thee to profit, causing thee to tread in a way thou shalt go.
And ye have totally forgotten the entreaty which is spoken to you as to sons, My son, neglect not the instruction of the Lord, nor be enervated being rebuked by him:
All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice:
My son, thou shalt not reject the instruction of Jehovah, and thou shalt not loathe upon his reproofs:
For if I also grieved you in the epistle, I regret not, and if I did regret: for I see that that epistle, if also for a time, grieved you.
And lest I be lifted up by the eminence of Revelation, a thorn in the flesh was given me, a messenger of Satan, that he might cuff me, lest I be lifted up. For this thrice besought I the Lord, that it remove away from me. And he said to me, My grace suffices thee: for my power is perfected in weakness. Therefore very willingly will I boast rather in my weaknesses, that Christ's power may lodge upon me.read more.
Therefore am I contented in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities in expulsions, in extremities for Christ: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Out of the heavens he caused thee to hear his voice to instruct thee: and upon earth he caused thee to see his great fire, and thou heardest his words from the midst of the fire.
I have said before, and say beforehand, as being present the second; and being away now I write to them having sinned before, and to all the rest, that, if I should come again, I will not spare:
Hidden things to Jehovah our God: and uncovered things to us and to our sons to forever, to do all the words of this law.
And deem not as an enemy, but remind as a brother.
And if thy brother sin against thee, retire, and refute him between thee and him alone; if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations: That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
For thus said Jehovah to me with strength of the hand, and he will turn me away from going in the way of this people, saying,
For the grace of God who saves, was manifested to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;
In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife. And ye were puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he having done this work might be taken away from the midst of you. For I truly, as being at a distance in body, and being present in spirit, have already, as being present, judged him having so worked this.read more.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye, gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture? Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new mixture, as ye are unleavened. For also our pascha was sacrificed for us, Christ:
And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change.
And if yet these ye will not hear to me, I added to chastise you seven times for your sins.
And I am struck all the day, and my reproofs for the mornings.
Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.
Great of counsel, and vast of doing: for thine eyes being opened upon all the ways of the sons of men to give to each according to his ways, and to the fruit of his doings:
But if he hear thee not, take with thee yet one or two, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might stand.
Against an elder receive not an accusation from without, except from two or three witnesses.
And I corrected and strengthened their arms, and they will purpose evil against me. They will turn back not to the Highest: they were as a bow of deceit: their chiefs shall fall by the sword from the wrath of their tongue: this their derision in the land of Egypt
And being judged, we are corrected of the Lord, lest we be condemned with the world.
And if ye are without correction, of which all are partakers, then are ye spurious, not sons.
Since we truly have fathers of our flesh instructors, and we were influenced: shall we not rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?
For they truly for a few days, according as it seemed to them, corrected; but he for profit, in order to partake in his holiness.
Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty: For he will cause pain, and he will bind up: he will smite and his hands will heal.
To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice and judgment, and uprightness;