Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty. For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law,
Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes,
“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—
As for you, son of man, prepare for yourself an exile's baggage, and go into exile by day in their sight. You shall go like an exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.
Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you.
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”
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