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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;

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

He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.

I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.

He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity.

For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

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

…and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.

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

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

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

Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.

Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.

…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,

He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,

Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.

Listen to instruction and be wise; do not ignore it.

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who ignores reproof goes astray.

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.

He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

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.

The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

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

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

If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

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

Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.

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

Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:

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

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

“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.

Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

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

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.

So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.

The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all.

She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.

I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.