Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law;
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit be digged for the wicked.
Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe thy word.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn thy statutes.
My son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah; Neither be weary of his reproof:
For whom Jehovah loveth he reproveth, Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;
All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.