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11 The discipline of the Lord, my son, do not spurn;(A)
    do not disdain his reproof;
12 [a]For whom the Lord loves he reproves,
    as a father, the son he favors.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:12 One might be tempted to judge the quality of one’s relationship to God by one’s prosperity. It is an inadequate criterion, for God as a teacher might go counter to student expectations. The discipline of God can involve suffering.

So you must know in your heart that, even as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord, your God, disciplines you.(A)

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32 but since we are judged by [the] Lord, we are being disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.(A)

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