Bible Verses About Adoption: Subjects saints to the fatherly discipline of God

That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.

I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

My son, reject not the correction of the Lord: and do not faint when thou art chastised by him:

For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth: and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself.

And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him.

For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct?

But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards and not sons.

Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and we reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and live?

And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.

Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are exercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice.