Proverbs 3:12

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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;

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

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

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.

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

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.

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

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

“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.

then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

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

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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

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;

Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.

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—

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

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.

then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

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

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

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

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

My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

“Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. You shall move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, “Don’t cry.”

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

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

I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

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

The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’

However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

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

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

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.