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They don’t have troubles like other people;
    they’re not plagued with problems like everyone else.

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12 Look at these wicked people—
    enjoying a life of ease while their riches multiply.

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Their homes are safe from every fear,
    and God does not punish them.

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19 I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference.

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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?
You have planted them,
    and they have taken root and prospered.
Your name is on their lips,
    but you are far from their hearts.

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If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all.

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32 Yet when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned along with the world.

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11 My child, don’t reject the Lord’s discipline,
    and don’t be upset when he corrects you.
12 For the Lord corrects those he loves,
    just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:12 Greek version reads loves, / and he punishes those he accepts as his children. Compare Heb 12:6.

When I think about what I am saying, I shudder.
    My body trembles.

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