Remember that the LORD your God corrects and punishes you just as parents discipline their children.

I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him as a father punishes his son.

Happy is the person whom God corrects! Do not resent it when he rebukes you.

LORD, don't be angry and rebuke me! Don't punish me in your anger!

You punish our sins by your rebukes, and like a moth you destroy what we love. Indeed we are no more than a puff of wind!

He scolds the nations---won't he punish them? He is the teacher of us all---hasn't he any knowledge?

My child, when the LORD corrects you, pay close attention and take it as a warning.

The LORD corrects those he loves, as parents correct a child of whom they are proud.

If you do what is wrong, you will be severely punished; you will die if you do not let yourself be corrected.

If you refuse to learn, you are hurting yourself. If you accept correction, you will become wiser.

Children just naturally do silly, careless things, but a good spanking will teach them how to behave.

You punished your people, LORD, and in anguish they prayed to you.

I punished you, but it did no good; you would not let me correct you. Like a raging lion, you have murdered your prophets.

You will tell them that their nation does not obey me, the LORD their God, or learn from their punishment. Faithfulness is dead. No longer is it even talked about.

Correct your people, LORD, but do not be too hard on us or punish us when you are angry; that would be the end of us.

I will come to you and save you. I will destroy all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not destroy you. I will not let you go unpunished; but when I punish you, I will be fair. I, the LORD, have spoken."

"I hear the people of Israel say in grief, ' LORD, we were like an untamed animal, but you taught us to obey. Bring us back; we are ready to return to you, the LORD our God.

It has not listened to the LORD or accepted his discipline. It has not put its trust in the LORD or asked for his help.

But we are judged and punished by the Lord, so that we shall not be condemned together with the world.

as unknown, yet we are known by all; as though we were dead, but, as you see, we live on. Although punished, we are not killed;

Have you forgotten the encouraging words which God speaks to you as his children? "My child, pay attention when the Lord corrects you, and do not be discouraged when he rebukes you.

Endure what you suffer as being a father's punishment; your suffering shows that God is treating you as his children. Was there ever a child who was not punished by his father?

In the case of our human fathers, they punished us and we respected them. How much more, then, should we submit to our spiritual Father and live!

When we are punished, it seems to us at the time something to make us sad, not glad. Later, however, those who have been disciplined by such punishment reap the peaceful reward of a righteous life.

Happy are those who remain faithful under trials, because when they succeed in passing such a test, they will receive as their reward the life which God has promised to those who love him.

"Because of what Phinehas has done, I am no longer angry with the people of Israel. He refused to tolerate the worship of any god but me, and that is why I did not destroy them in my anger.

He and his descendants are permanently established as priests, because he did not tolerate any rivals to me and brought about forgiveness for the people's sin."

My devotion to your Temple burns in me like a fire; the insults which are hurled at you fall on me.

His disciples remembered that the scripture says, "My devotion to your house, O God, burns in me like a fire."

Work hard and do not be lazy. Serve the Lord with a heart full of devotion.

See what God did with this sadness of yours: how earnest it has made you, how eager to prove your innocence! Such indignation, such alarm, such feelings, such devotion, such readiness to punish wrongdoing! You have shown yourselves to be without fault in the whole matter.

Now, it is good to have such a deep interest if the purpose is good---this is true always, and not merely when I am with you.

He gave himself for us, to rescue us from all wickedness and to make us a pure people who belong to him alone and are eager to do good.

Think how far you have fallen! Turn from your sins and do what you did at first. If you don't turn from your sins, I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place.

I have given her time to repent of her sins, but she does not want to turn from her immorality.

And so I will throw her on a bed where she and those who committed adultery with her will suffer terribly. I will do this now unless they repent of the wicked things they did with her.