Verse 11
My son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah; Neither be weary of his reproof:
Referenced Verses
- Job 5:17 : 17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
- Heb 12:5-9 : 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of righteousness. 12 Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;
- 1 Cor 11:32 : 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
- 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:
- 2 Cor 4:16-17 : 16 Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
- Heb 12:3 : 3 For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.
- Ps 94:12 : 12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law;
- Prov 24:10 : 10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.
- Isa 40:30-31 : 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
- Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- Job 4:5 : 5 But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.