Psalm 119:75
New Living Translation
75 I know, O Lord, that your regulations are fair;
you disciplined me because I needed it.
Revelation 3:19
New Living Translation
19 I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference.
Hebrews 12:10-11
New Living Translation
10 For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness. 11 No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.
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Romans 3:4-5
New Living Translation
4 Of course not! Even if everyone else is a liar, God is true. As the Scriptures say about him,
“You will be proved right in what you say,
and you will win your case in court.”[a]
5 “But,” some might say, “our sinfulness serves a good purpose, for it helps people see how righteous God is. Isn’t it unfair, then, for him to punish us?” (This is merely a human point of view.)
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Jeremiah 12:1
New Living Translation
Jeremiah Questions the Lord’s Justice
12 Lord, you always give me justice
when I bring a case before you.
So let me bring you this complaint:
Why are the wicked so prosperous?
Why are evil people so happy?
Psalm 119:160
New Living Translation
160 The very essence of your words is truth;
all your just regulations will stand forever.
Psalm 119:128
New Living Translation
128 Each of your commandments is right.
That is why I hate every false way.
Psalm 119:62
New Living Translation
62 I rise at midnight to thank you
for your just regulations.
Psalm 119:7
New Living Translation
7 As I learn your righteous regulations,
I will thank you by living as I should!
Psalm 89:30-33
New Living Translation
30 But if his descendants forsake my instructions
and fail to obey my regulations,
31 if they do not obey my decrees
and fail to keep my commands,
32 then I will punish their sin with the rod,
and their disobedience with beating.
33 But I will never stop loving him
nor fail to keep my promise to him.
Psalm 25:10
New Living Translation
10 The Lord leads with unfailing love and faithfulness
all who keep his covenant and obey his demands.
Job 34:23
New Living Translation
23 We don’t set the time
when we will come before God in judgment.
Deuteronomy 32:4
New Living Translation
4 He is the Rock; his deeds are perfect.
Everything he does is just and fair.
He is a faithful God who does no wrong;
how just and upright he is!
Genesis 18:25
New Living Translation
25 Surely you wouldn’t do such a thing, destroying the righteous along with the wicked. Why, you would be treating the righteous and the wicked exactly the same! Surely you wouldn’t do that! Should not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
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