For whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives. 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
Job 5: 17, 18
Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. 18 For He bruises, but He binds up; He wounds, but His hands make whole.
Ecc 8: 11
Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Prov 15: 32
He who disdains instruction despises his own soul, but he who heeds rebuke gets understanding.
Prov 27: 5
Open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed.
Prov 22: 15
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of correction will drive it far from him.
Prov 16: 6
In mercy and truth atonement is provided for iniquity; and by the fear of the Lord one departs from evil.
Heb 12: 9 - 11
Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, 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.
