Disciplined

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,

Then he took the elders of the city, and using the thorns and briers of the wilderness, he disciplined the men of Succoth.

The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.

O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.

I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

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

Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.