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

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

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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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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29 Why then do you (A)scorn[a] my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded for my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:29 Hebrew kick at

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but (A)the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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