Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I have kept Your Word.

Blessed is the man whom You correct, O YAH, and teach out of Your Law,

that You may give him rest from the evil days, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be atoned; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in pieces, the groves and idols shall not stand.

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

For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.

Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it.