2 Samuel 12:14

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

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

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

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

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his land.’

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.

The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before Yahweh.”

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’

Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

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.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

“ ‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

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

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

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

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

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;

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.

Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

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.

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

“Go and speak to David, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.” ’ ”

When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who was disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth. Therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke to him.”

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

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

Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”

“But you profane it, in that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

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

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

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