You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.

Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the Lord your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm—

The Rebellious Son

“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them,

I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

Eliphaz: Job Is Chastened by God

“Call out now; Is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn?

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

“Man is also chastened with pain on his bed, And with strong pain in many of his bones,

“For has anyone said to God, ‘I have borne chastening; I will offend no more;

A Prayer of Faith in Time of Distress

To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. On an eight-stringed harp. A Psalm of David.

O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger, Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure.

Prayer in Time of Chastening

A Psalm of David. To bring to remembrance.

O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure!

When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, That became my reproach.

For all day long I have been plagued, And chastened every morning.

The Lord has chastened me severely, But He has not given me over to death.

My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor detest His correction;

Chasten your son while there is hope, And do not set your heart on his destruction.

Lord, in trouble they have visited You, They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.

“In vain I have chastened your children; They received no correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.

When it is My desire, I will chasten them. Peoples shall be gathered against them When I bind them for their two transgressions.

But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed;

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;

For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?