Hebrews 12:5,6  and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, "MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM; • FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."

Proverbs 3:12  For whom the LORD loves He reproves, Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

Job 5:18  "For He inflicts pain, and gives relief; He wounds, and His hands also heal.

1 Peter 5:6  Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time,

Isaiah 48:10  "Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Lamentations 3:33  For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of men.

Psalm 103:10-14  He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. • For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him. • As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us. • Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him. • For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust.

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