27 Bible Verses about discipline, divine

for the Lord corrects those whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.

For the light affliction which is for a moment, works out for us more abundantly an eternal weight of glory, while we look not on the things which are seen but on the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are for a time, but those which are unseen are eternal.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous therefore and change your minds.

For I think that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory to be revealed in us.

Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

If you endure correction, God deals with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not correct?

And no correction seems to be joyful for the present but painful, but afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which says to you as to sons, My son, despise not the correction of the Lord and faint not when rebuked by him,

All Scripture is divinely inspired and is profitable for instruction, for conviction, for correction, for education in righteousnes,

For if I even grieved you by the epistle, I do not repent, though I did repent; for because I see that the epistle grieved you but for a time,

And that I might not be elated with my extraordinary revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to beat me, that I should not be too much exalted. For this I besought the Lord thrice that it might leave me. And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you; for power is perfected in weakness.read more.
Most gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Wherefore I am well pleased with infirmities, with injuries, with necessities, with persecutions, with distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

I have said before, and I now foretell as if present a second time, although absent, to those who have already sinned and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare;

and account him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

But if your brother sins against you, go and reprove him between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.

In which you rejoice, though now for a little while if need be made sad by manifold trials, that the trial of your faith, which is much more precious than gold that is destroyed but proved by fire, may be found to praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

For the grace of God that pertains to salvation appeared to all men, teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife. And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed should be removed from among you. For I indeed as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged as present him that has so done this,read more.
in the name of our Lord Jesus you being assembled together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. Your rejoicing is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole mass? Remove the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are unleavened; for Christ our passover was also sacrificed for us.

But if any one obeys not our word by this epistle, mark that one, and have no association with him, that he may be ashamed;

Those that sin, rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

Sufficient for such a one is this rebuke by many;

Brothers, if a man is overtaken with any fault, do you that are spiritual restore such a one with a spirit of meekness, considering yourself; lest you also be tried.

But if he does not hear you, take with you one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established;

Against an elder receive not an accusation, except by two or three witnesses.

but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

But if you are without correction of which all are partakers, then you are of foreign birth, and not sons.

Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

For they for a few days corrected us as seemed good to them, but he for the best, that we may partake of his holiness.