Psalm 73:5
New Living Translation
5 They don’t have troubles like other people;
they’re not plagued with problems like everyone else.
Psalm 73:12
New Living Translation
12 Look at these wicked people—
enjoying a life of ease while their riches multiply.
Jeremiah 12:1-2
New Living Translation
Jeremiah Questions the Lord’s Justice
12 Lord, you always give me justice
when I bring a case before you.
So let me bring you this complaint:
Why are the wicked so prosperous?
Why are evil people so happy?
2 You have planted them,
and they have taken root and prospered.
Your name is on their lips,
but you are far from their hearts.
Job 21:9
New Living Translation
9 Their homes are safe from every fear,
and God does not punish them.
Revelation 3:19
New Living Translation
19 I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference.
Hebrews 12:8
New Living Translation
8 If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all.
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1 Corinthians 11:32
New Living Translation
32 Yet when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
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Proverbs 3:11-12
New Living Translation
11 My child, don’t reject the Lord’s discipline,
and don’t be upset when he corrects you.
12 For the Lord corrects those he loves,
just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights.[a]
Job 21:6
New Living Translation
6 When I think about what I am saying, I shudder.
My body trembles.
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