Bible Verses About Chastisement

Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.

He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.

Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters;

These see the LORD’s works, and his wonders in the deep.

For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.

He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.

My son, don’t despise the LORD’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

for whom the LORD loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.

Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the LORD.

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?