Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; therefore have I kept Your word.

Blessed is the man whom You shall chasten, O Lord, and shall teach him out of Your law;

to give him rest from evil days, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I have taken away his sin; when they have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.

But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, in order that we may not be condemned with the world.

For they indeed for a few days were disciplining us, as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, in order to partake of His holiness.

Now no discipline seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, later it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those having been trained by it.