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?
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- KJV If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
- BSB Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
- NKJV If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
- NASB It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
- NLT As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father?
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- Prov 19:18Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.
- Deut 8:5You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
- Prov 13:24One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
- Prov 29:15The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
- Prov 29:17Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
- Prov 23:13–14Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
- 2 Sam 7:14I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
- Job 34:31–32“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
- 1 Sam 3:13For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.
- 1 Kgs 2:24–25Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”
- 1 Sam 2:34“‘This will be the sign to you, that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.
- 1 Sam 2:29Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
- 1 Kgs 1:6His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.
- Prov 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
- Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
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