Discipline your children, and they will give you peace; they will bring you the delights you desire.

Lord, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.

Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure— not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.

Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline.

I am with you and will save you,’ declares the Lord. ‘Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.’

“I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me like an unruly calf, and I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return, because you are the Lord my God.

They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant, for I am with you,” declares the Lord. “Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.”

The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter. I will discipline all of them.

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?

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.

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.

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.

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.

Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.

God Disciplines His Children

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

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,

because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?

If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

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!

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.

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.

Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.