Discipline

And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

He let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.

Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;

I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments, according to Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?

Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,

…for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;

…and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.

For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.

A wise son heeds his father’s discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.

Poverty and shame come to him who ignores discipline, but whoever heeds correction is honored.

A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.

Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.

Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessor, but the discipline of fools is folly.

Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.

Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.

Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.

For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.

They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: ‘Will you not accept discipline and obey My words?’ declares the LORD.

And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.