Proverbs 19:25

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

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

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

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.

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

The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

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

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.

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.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

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

Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

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

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.

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;

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

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

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

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

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

“Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

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.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

“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.

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

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

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.

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.

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;

for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.

To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

“Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person with stones.

He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.

That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.

All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

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.

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

“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.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

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

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

“You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”

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

“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.

but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

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.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

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.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

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

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

A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

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