⁵ Nevertheless the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God ^(A)loves you.

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those ^(A)who are the called according to His purpose.

¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, ^(A)that we may be partakers of His holiness.

¹¹ Now no ^[a]chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields ^(A)the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.