Chastening

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged... But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. - 1 Corinthians 11:31,32

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:.. And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. - Psalm 139:23,24

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. - 1 John 1:9

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: - Job 5:17

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;.. That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. - Psalm 94:12,13

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word... It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. - Psalm 119:65,71

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:.. For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. - Proverbs 3:11,12

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:.. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth... If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? - Hebrews 12:5-7

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. - Hebrews 12:11

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. - Revelation 3:19

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