49 Bible Verses about discipline, divine

"For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts."

For the Lord disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.

I know, Lord, that your regulations are just. You disciplined me because of your faithful devotion to me.

For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!

Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you.

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not. So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord's mouth.read more.
Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years. Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you.

Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.

Bear in mind today that I am not speaking to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments of the Lord your God, which revealed his greatness, strength, and power. They did not see the awesome deeds he performed in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land, or what he did to the army of Egypt, including their horses and chariots, when he made the waters of the Red Sea overwhelm them while they were pursuing you and he annihilated them.read more.
They did not see what he did to you in the desert before you reached this place, or what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp and swallowed them, their families, their tents, and all the property they brought with them. I am speaking to you because you are the ones who saw all the great deeds of the Lord!

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

"Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.

This is what the Lord, your protector, says, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the Lord your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who leads you in the way you should go.

And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? "My son, do not scorn the Lord's discipline or give up when he corrects you.

Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

My child, do not despise discipline from the Lord, and do not loathe his rebuke.

For even if I made you sad by my letter, I do not regret having written it (even though I did regret it, for I see that my letter made you sad, though only for a short time).

even because of the extraordinary character of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not become arrogant, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to trouble me -- so that I would not become arrogant. I asked the Lord three times about this, that it would depart from me. But he said to me, "My grace is enough for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." So then, I will boast most gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may reside in me.read more.
Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

I said before when I was present the second time and now, though absent, I say again to those who sinned previously and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare anyone,

Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.

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

"If your brother sins, go and show him his fault when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have regained your brother.

This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials. Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold -- gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away -- and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Indeed this is what the Lord told me. He took hold of me firmly and warned me not to act like these people:

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father's wife. And you are proud! Shouldn't you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you? For even though I am absent physically, I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.read more.
When you gather together in the name of our Lord Jesus, and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of our Lord Jesus, turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough? Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough -- you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

But if anyone does not obey our message through this letter, take note of him and do not associate closely with him, so that he may be ashamed.

"'If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.

Those guilty of sin must be rebuked before all, as a warning to the rest.

This punishment on such an individual by the majority is enough for him,

I suffer all day long, and am punished every morning."

Brothers and sisters, if a person is discovered in some sin, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness. Pay close attention to yourselves, so that you are not tempted too.

You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. You see everything people do. You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do.

But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.

Those who revolt are knee-deep in slaughter, but I will discipline them all.

Do not accept an accusation against an elder unless it can be confirmed by two or three witnesses.

Although I trained and strengthened them, they plot evil against me! They turn to Baal; they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.

But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.

"Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.

How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O Lord, the one whom you teach from your law,

Before I was afflicted I used to stray off, but now I keep your instructions.

To learn wisdom and moral instruction, and to discern wise counsel. To receive moral instruction in skillful living, in righteousness, justice, and equity.