" Behold, happy [is] the man whom God corrects; Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

Blessed [is] the man whom You instruct, O LORD, And teach out of Your law,

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

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;

For whom the LORD loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives."

"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.

[If] you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength [is] small.

But now it comes upon you, and you are weary; It touches you, and you are troubled.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,

But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew [their] strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward [man] is being renewed day by day.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory,

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected [us,] and we paid [them] respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

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 trained by it.