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What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?
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The Need for Self-Discipline
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
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Nevertheless, when we are judged in this way by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be finally condemned with the world.
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For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and delight to see how disciplined you are and how firm your faith in Christ is.
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For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
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Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.
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God Disciplines His Children
In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
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And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
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because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”
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Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?
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If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.
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Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!
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They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.
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No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
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Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.