Correction

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.

He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. — read the full passage →

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, — read the full passage →

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: — read the full passage →

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning; — read the full passage →

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. — read the full passage →

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed. — read the full passage →

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.” — read the full passage →

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them. — read the full passage →

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine, — read the full passage →

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. — read the full passage →

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. — read the full passage →

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”

Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.

I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man. — read the full passage →

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby. — read the full passage →

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. — read the full passage →

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.