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11 Do not reject the Lord’s discipline, my son,
and do not despise his warning,
12 because the Lord warns[a] the one he loves
    as a father warns a son with whom he is pleased.

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  1. Proverbs 3:12 Or disciplines

11 My son,(A) do not despise the Lord’s discipline,(B)
    and do not resent his rebuke,
12 because the Lord disciplines those he loves,(C)
    as a father the son he delights in.[a](D)

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  1. Proverbs 3:12 Hebrew; Septuagint loves, / and he chastens everyone he accepts as his child