Matthew 16:9

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

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

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.

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.

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

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;

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

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,

“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.

So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?

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

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

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;

A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”

His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But he said, “Give the people, that they may eat; for Yahweh says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’ ”

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.

Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

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

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

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

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

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

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

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh; “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

They told him, “We only have here five loaves and two fish.”

He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.

“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”

But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.

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;

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

Moses said, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”

You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.

Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

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

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;

You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.

butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.

He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

They also brought Barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty.

Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’ ”

“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”

He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.

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

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”

He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go see.” When they knew, they said, “Five, and two fish.”

He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Twelve.”

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”

“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”

Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

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