It is for discipline that you have to endure. (A)God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

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Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children.(A) For what children are not disciplined by their father?

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18 (A)Discipline your son, for there is hope;
    do not set your heart on (B)putting him to death.

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18 Discipline your children, for in that there is hope;
    do not be a willing party to their death.(A)

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Know then in your heart that, (A)as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.

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Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.(A)

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15 (A)The rod and reproof give wisdom,
    but a child left to himself (B)brings shame to his mother.

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15 A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom,
    but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother.(A)

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24 (A)Whoever spares the rod hates his son,
    but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 13:24 Or who loves him disciplines him early

24 Whoever spares the rod(A) hates their children,
    but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline(B) them.(C)

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17 (A)Discipline your son, and he will give you rest;
    he will give delight to your heart.

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17 Discipline your children, and they will give you peace;
    they will bring you the delights you desire.(A)

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13 Do not withhold (A)discipline from a child;
    (B)if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
14 If you strike him with the rod,
    you will (C)save his soul from Sheol.

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Saying 13

13 Do not withhold discipline from a child;
    if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.
14 Punish them with the rod
    and save them from death.(A)

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31 “For has anyone said to God,
    ‘I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;
32 (A)teach me what I do not see;
    if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

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31 “Suppose someone says to God,
    ‘I am guilty(A) but will offend no more.
32 Teach me what I cannot see;(B)
    if I have done wrong, I will not do so again.’(C)

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24 Now therefore (A)as the Lord lives, who has established me and placed me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, (B)as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today.” 25 So King Solomon sent (C)Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he struck him down, and he died.

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24 And now, as surely as the Lord lives—he who has established me securely on the throne of my father David and has founded a dynasty for me as he promised(A)—Adonijah shall be put to death today!” 25 So King Solomon gave orders to Benaiah(B) son of Jehoiada, and he struck down Adonijah and he died.(C)

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14 (A)I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, (B)I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,

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14 I will be his father, and he will be my son.(A) When he does wrong, I will punish him(B) with a rod(C) wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands.

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His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, (A)and he was born next after Absalom.

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(His father had never rebuked(A) him by asking, “Why do you behave as you do?” He was also very handsome and was born next after Absalom.)

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13 (A)And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, (B)because his sons were blaspheming God,[a] (C)and he did not restrain them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 3:13 Or blaspheming for themselves

13 For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons blasphemed God,[a] and he failed to restrain(A) them.

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  1. 1 Samuel 3:13 An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text sons made themselves contemptible

34 (A)And this that shall come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die (B)on the same day.

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34 “‘And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign(A) to you—they will both die(B) on the same day.(C)

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