Verse 71

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes.

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  • Ps 94:12-13 : 12 Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law; 13 That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be dug for the wicked.
  • Ps 119:67 : 67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep Your word.
  • 1 Cor 11:32 : 32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
  • Heb 12:10-11 : 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but he for our benefit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful: nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
  • Isa 27:9 : 9 By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten apart, the groves and images shall not stand up.