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12 Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord,
    and whom you teach out of your law,(A)

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11 My child, do not despise the Lord’s discipline
    or be weary of his reproof,(A)
12 for the Lord reproves the one he loves,
    as a father the son in whom he delights.(B)

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And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as children—

“My child, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord
    or lose heart when you are punished by him,(A)
for the Lord disciplines those whom he loves
    and chastises every child whom he accepts.”(B)

Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children, for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline?(C) If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.(D) Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share his holiness.(E) 11 Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.(F)

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17 “How happy is the one whom God reproves;
    therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 5.17 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined[a] so that we may not be condemned along with the world.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 11.32 Or When we are judged, we are being disciplined by the Lord

19 I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.(A)

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71 It is good for me that I was humbled,
    so that I might learn your statutes.

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67 Before I was humbled I went astray,
    but now I keep your word.(A)

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16 then he opens their ears
    and terrifies them with warnings,(A)
17 that he may turn them aside from their deeds
    and keep them from pride,
18 to spare their souls from the Pit,
    their lives from traversing the River.
19 They are also chastened with pain upon their beds
    and with continual strife in their bones,(B)
20 so that their lives loathe bread
    and their appetites dainty food.(C)
21 Their flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
    and their bones, once invisible, now stick out.(D)
22 Their souls draw near the Pit
    and their lives to those who bring death.(E)
23 Then, if there should be for one of them an angel,
    a mediator, one of a thousand,
    one who declares a person upright,(F)
24 and he is gracious to that person and says,
    ‘Deliver him from going down into the Pit;
    I have found a ransom;(G)
25 let his flesh become fresh with youth;
    let him return to the days of his youthful vigor,’(H)

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Know, then, in your heart that, as a parent disciplines a child, so the Lord your God disciplines you.(A)

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Cheating and Violence to Be Punished

The voice of the Lord cries to the city
    (and he shall save those who fear his name[a]):
Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city![b]

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Footnotes

  1. 6.9 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 6.9 Cn Compare Gk: Heb tribe, and who has appointed it yet?