27 Bible Verses about discipline, divine

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

For the light burden of our affliction, which is evanescent, is working out for us an eternal weight of glory according to hyperbole unto hyperbole; we not looking at the things which are visible, but the things which are invisible; for the visible things are temporary, but the invisible things are eternal.

So many as I love, I rebuke and chastise; be zealous, and repent.

For I reckon that the sufferings of these present times are not worthy to be compared to the glory which is about to be revealed in us.

Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love.

Endure unto chastisement; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom the father does not chastise?

Indeed no chastisement for the present seems to be truly joyful, but sorrowful: but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who have been disciplined by it.

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art proven of him:

All scripture is God-breathed and profitable unto teaching, unto conviction, unto correction, unto instruction which is in righteousness:

But if I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret it, if indeed I did regret it; for I see that, if that letter indeed grieved you for an hour,

And that I may not be exalted by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given unto me in the flesh, the messenger of Satan that he may buffet me, in order that I may not be exalted. Three times I called on the Lord concerning this, that it may depart from me. And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most delightfully I will glory the more in my infirmities, in order that the power of Christ may abide on me.read more.
Therefore I delight in infirmities, in insults, in difficulties, in persecutions, and in tight places, for Christ's sake: for when I am without strength, then I am dynamite.

I have told you beforehand, and I am speaking to you in advance, as being present the second time, even now absent, that, if I may come to you again, I will not spare those who have previously sinned, and all the rest;

consider him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

But if thy brother may sin, go, and convict him between thee and him alone: if he may hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother:

In whom you rejoice, if however it is needful, being grieved a little while among manifold temptations: in order that the trial of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, however being tried by the fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor in the revelation of Jesus Christ:

For the grace of God, that brings salvation to all men, has appeared, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we must live prudently and righteously and holily in this present age;

Fornication is truly heard of among you, and such fornication which is not among the heathens, that one should have the wife of his father. And have you been inflated, and have not rather mourned, that the one having done this work may be taken from your midst? For indeed I, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged the one having thus done this, as being present,read more.
in the name of the Lord Jesus, you and my spirit being assembled, with the power of the Lord Jesus, to turn over such a one to Satan for the destruction of carnality, in order 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? Cleanse away the old leaven, in order that you may be a new lump, as you are free from leaven; for Christ has truly become our Passover.

But if any one does not obey our word through the epistle, note him; do not keep company with him; in order that he may be ashamed;

Convict those who sin before all, in order that the rest may also have fear.

This punishment which for many to such a one is sufficient;

Brethren, if indeed a man may be overtaken in some transgression, you who are spiritual, perfect such an one in the spirit of meekness; watching yourself, lest you may also be tempted.

if he may not hear thee, take with thyself one or two, in order that in the mouth of two or three witnesses the word may stand.

Bring not an accusation against an elder, except before two or three witnesses.

But being judged, by the Lord we are chastised, in order that we may not be condemned along with the world.

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

Then indeed, we had fathers of our flesh who chastised us, and we endured: how much more then shall we submit to the Father of spirits, and live?

For they indeed for a few days were accustomed to chastise us according to that which seemed right to them; but he made unto our profit, in order that we might partake his holiness.