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Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in whom] he delighteth.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
¶ We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake [as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost.
¶ Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
¶ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.
¶ He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.
And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
¶ Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
¶ I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and [that] thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
¶ Blessed [is] the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
¶ But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you].
For I [am] the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I [am] holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
For I [am] the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy.
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
¶ Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
¶ A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart.
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
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