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 Lord,
and teachest him 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 have I kept thy word.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted;
that I might learn thy statutes.
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord;
neither be weary of his correction:
for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth;
even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children,
My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.