49 Bible Verses about discipline, divine

for whom the Lord loves He chastens, and He scourges every son whom He receives."

for whom Jehovah loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

I know, O Jehovah, that Your judgments are right, and that You have afflicted me in faithfulness.

For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory, we not considering the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are not lasting, but the things which are not seen are everlasting.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; therefore be zealous and repent.

And you have known with your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so Jehovah your God chastens you.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed in us.

All the commandments which I command you this day shall you be careful to do, that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers. And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, and then He fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know it, so that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of Jehovah man shall live.read more.
Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell, these forty years. And you have known with your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so Jehovah your God chastens you.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men.

And you know today, for I do not speak with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, and His stretched-out arm, and His miracles, and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land. And you know what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how He made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and Jehovah has destroyed them to today.read more.
And you know what He did to you in the wilderness until you came into this place, and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance in their possession, in the midst of all Israel. But your eyes have seen all the great acts of Jehovah which He did.

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?

Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

So teach us to number our days, so that we may bring a heart of wisdom.

Now chastening for the present does not seem to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.

So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am Jehovah your God who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him;

All Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

My son, do not despise the chastening of Jehovah; nor be weary with His correction;

For even if I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret; if indeed I did regret; for I see that that letter grieved you for an hour.

and by the surpassing revelations, lest I be made haughty, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be made haughty. For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me. And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may overshadow me.read more.
Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

He made you hear His voice out of Heaven so that He might teach you. And He showed you His great fire upon earth. And you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.

I told you before, and I say beforehand, as being present the second time and being absent now. I write to those who sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.

The secret things belong to Jehovah our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our sons forever, so that we may do all the words of this Law.

Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

But if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.

in which you greatly rejoice, yet a little while, if need be, grieving in manifold temptations; so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

For so Jehovah spoke to me with a strong hand, and warned me against walking in the way of this people, saying,

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,

On the whole it is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have his father's wife. And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed may be taken from your midst. For as being absent in body but present in spirit, I indeed have judged already as though I were present concerning him who worked out this thing;read more.
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, with my spirit; also, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ; to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

And if anyone does not obey our word by this letter, mark that one and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

And if you will not yet listen to Me for all this, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

Those who sin, rebuke before all, so that the rest also may fear.

This punishment by the majority is enough for such a one;

For all the day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.

Brothers, if a man is overtaken in a fault, you the spiritual ones restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

great in wisdom and mighty in work; for Your eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.

But if he will not hear you, take one or two more with you, so that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

And revolters have gone deep in slaughtering, and I chasten all of them.

Do not receive an accusation against an elder except before two or three witnesses.

Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet they think evil against Me. They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a deceitful bow; their rulers shall fall by the sword from the rage of their tongue. This shall be their scorn in the land of Egypt.

But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

But if you are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then you are bastards and not sons.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

For truly they chastened us for a few days according to their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.

Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. For He makes sore, and binds up; He wounds, and His hands make whole.

Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O Jehovah, to teach him out of Your Law;

Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your Word.

to know wisdom and instruction; to recognize the words of understanding; to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and uprightness;