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My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
¶ The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
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:
¶ Blessed [is] the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
¶ A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.
¶ Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof [is] brutish.
¶ Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;
¶ Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
[As] an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, [so is] a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.
¶ Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
¶ [If] thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.
¶ He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the sure mercies of David.
And [that] thou shouldest visit him every morning, [and] try him every moment?
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
¶ Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
[Is it] good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war [are] against me.
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
¶ He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that [are] round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken [it].
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs.
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [and] punishments upon the people;
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
¶ He [is in] the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
¶ Poverty and shame [shall be to] him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
¶ Correction [is] grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: [and] he that hateth reproof shall die.
¶ Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.
¶ He, that being often reproved hardeneth [his] neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
¶ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.
¶ I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
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