Hebrews 12:7
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7 Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children, for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline?(A)
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Proverbs 19:18
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18 Discipline your children while there is hope;
do not set your heart on their destruction.(A)
Deuteronomy 8:5
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5 Know, then, in your heart that, as a parent disciplines a child, so the Lord your God disciplines you.(A)
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Proverbs 29:15
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15 The rod and reproof give wisdom,
but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.(A)
Proverbs 13:24
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24 Those who spare the rod hate their children,
but those who love them are diligent to discipline them.(A)
Proverbs 29:17
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17 Discipline your children, and they will give you rest;
they will give delight to your heart.(A)
Proverbs 23:13-14
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13 Do not withhold discipline from your children;
if you beat them with a rod, they will not die.(A)
14 If you beat them with the rod,
you will save their lives from Sheol.
Job 34:31-32
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31 “For has anyone said to God,
‘I have endured punishment; I will not offend any more;
32 teach me what I do not see;
if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?(A)
1 Kings 2:24-25
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24 Now therefore as the Lord lives, who has established me and placed me on the throne of my father David and who has made me a house as he promised, today Adonijah shall be put to death.”(A) 25 So King Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada; he struck him down, and he died.
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2 Samuel 7:14
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14 I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rod such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by human beings.(A)
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1 Kings 1:6
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6 His father had never at any time reprimanded him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.(A)
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1 Samuel 3:13
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13 For I have told him that I am about to punish his house forever for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God,[a] and he did not restrain them.(A)
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- 3.13 Gk: Heb cursing for themselves
1 Samuel 2:34
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34 The fate of your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.(A)
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1 Samuel 2:29
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29 Why then look[a] with greedy eye at my sacrifices and my offerings[b] and honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?(A)
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Acts 14:22
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22 There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”(A)
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Proverbs 22:15
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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline drives it far away.(A)
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