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1 Corinthians 11 32
but when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined, so that we may not be condemned with the world.
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2 Corinthians 6 9
as unknown, yet recognized; as dying, yet see— we live; as being disciplined, yet not killed;
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Job 5:17-18
See how happy is the person whom God corrects; so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.For he wounds but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.
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Hebrews 12:10-11
For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but he does it for our benefit, so that we can share his holiness.No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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2 Samuel 12 10
Now therefore, the sword will never leave your house because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hethite to be your own wife.’
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Psalms 94:12-13
LORD, how happy is anyone you discipline and teach from your lawto give him relief from troubled times until a pit is dug for the wicked.
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Proverbs 3:11-12
Do not despise the LORD’s instruction, my son, and do not loathe his discipline;for the LORD disciplines the one he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.
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2 Corinthians 1 9-2 Corinthians 1 11
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.He has delivered us from such a terrible death, and he will deliver us. We have put our hope in him that he will deliver us againwhile you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.
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Psalms 66:10-12
For you, God, tested us; you refined us as silver is refined.You lured us into a trap; you placed burdens on our backs.You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but you brought us out to abundance.
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Jonah 2:6
I sank to the foundations of the mountains, the earth’s gates shut behind me forever! Then you raised my life from the Pit, LORD my God!
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Job 33:16-30
he uncovers their ears and terrifies them with warnings,in order to turn a person from his actions and suppress the pride of a person.God spares his soul from the Pit, his life from crossing the river of death.A person may be disciplined on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,so that he detests bread, and his soul despises his favorite food.His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his unseen bones stick out.He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the executioners.If there is an angel on his side, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what is right for himand to be gracious to him and say,“ Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom,”then his flesh will be healthier than in his youth, and he will return to the days of his youthful vigor.He will pray to God, and God will delight in him. That person will see his face with a shout of joy, and God will restore his righteousness to him.He will look at men and say,“ I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will continue to see the light.”God certainly does all these things two or three times to a personin order to turn him back from the Pit, so he may shine with the light of life.
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2 Samuel 13 1-2 Samuel 13 39
Some time passed. David’s son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar, and David’s son Amnon was infatuated with her.Amnon was frustrated to the point of making himself sick over his sister Tamar because she was a virgin, but it seemed impossible to do anything to her.Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, a son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,and he asked Amnon,“ Why are you, the king’s son, so miserable every morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied,“ I’m in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”Jonadab said to him,“ Lie down on your bed and pretend you’re sick. When your father comes to see you, say to him,‘ Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare a meal in my presence so I can watch and eat from her hand.’”So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to him,“ Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my presence so I can eat from her hand.”David sent word to Tamar at the palace:“ Please go to your brother Amnon’s house and prepare a meal for him.”Then Tamar went to his house while Amnon was lying down. She took dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his presence, and baked them.She brought the pan and set it down in front of him, but he refused to eat. Amnon said,“ Everyone leave me!” And everyone left him.“ Bring the meal to the bedroom,” Amnon told Tamar,“ so I can eat from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.When she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said,“ Come sleep with me, my sister!”“ Don’t, my brother!” she cried.“ Don’t disgrace me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Don’t commit this outrage!Where could I ever go with my humiliation? And you— you would be like one of the outrageous fools in Israel! Please, speak to the king, for he won’t keep me from you.”But he refused to listen to her, and because he was stronger than she was, he disgraced her by raping her.So Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that the hatred he hated her with was greater than the love he had loved her with.“ Get out of here!” he said.“ No,” she cried,“ sending me away is much worse than the great wrong you’ve already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.Instead, he called to the servant who waited on him,“ Get this away from me, throw her out, and bolt the door behind her!”Amnon’s servant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a long-sleeved robe, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long-sleeved robe she was wearing. She put her hand on her head and went away crying out.Her brother Absalom said to her,“ Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.When King David heard about all these things, he was furious.Absalom didn’t say anything to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon since he disgraced his sister Tamar.Two years later, Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.Then he went to the king and said,“ Your servant has just hired sheepshearers. Will the king and his servants please come with your servant?”The king replied to Absalom,“ No, my son, we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he wasn’t willing to go, though he did bless him.“ If not,” Absalom said,“ please let my brother Amnon go with us.” The king asked him,“ Why should he go with you?”But Absalom urged him, so he sent Amnon and all the king’s sons.Now Absalom commanded his young men,“ Watch Amnon until he is in a good mood from the wine. When I order you to strike Amnon, then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Am I not the one who has commanded you? Be strong and valiant!”So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had commanded. Then all the rest of the king’s sons got up, and each fled on his mule.While they were on the way, a report reached David:“ Absalom struck down all the king’s sons; not even one of them survived!”In response the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground, and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.But Jonadab, son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up:“ My lord must not think they have killed all the young men, the king’s sons, because only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this ever since the day Amnon disgraced his sister Tamar.So now, my lord the king, don’t take seriously the report that says all the king’s sons are dead. Only Amnon is dead.”Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man who was standing watch looked up, there were many people coming from the road west of him from the side of the mountain.Jonadab said to the king,“ Look, the king’s sons have come! It’s exactly like your servant said.”Just as he finished speaking, the king’s sons entered and wept loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.But Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.After Absalom had fled to Geshur and had been there three years,King David longed to go to Absalom, for David had finished grieving over Amnon’s death.
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2 Samuel 16 1-2 Samuel 16 23
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba, Mephibosheth’s servant, was right there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred clusters of raisins, one hundred bunches of summer fruit, and a clay jar of wine.The king said to Ziba,“ Why do you have these?” Ziba answered,“ The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is for those to drink who become exhausted in the wilderness.”“ Where is your master’s grandson?” the king asked.“ Why, he’s staying in Jerusalem,” Ziba replied to the king,“ for he said,‘ Today, the house of Israel will restore my grandfather’s kingdom to me.’”The king said to Ziba,“ All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!”“ I bow before you,” Ziba said.“ May I find favor with you, my lord the king!”When King David got to Bahurim, a man belonging to the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and he was yelling curses as he approached.He threw stones at David and at all the royal servants, the people and the warriors on David’s right and left.Shimei said as he cursed,“ Get out, get out, you man of bloodshed, you wicked man!The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul in whose place you became king, and the LORD has handed the kingdom over to your son Absalom. Look, you are in trouble because you’re a man of bloodshed!”Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king,“ Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and remove his head!”The king replied,“ Sons of Zeruiah, do we agree on anything? He curses me this way because the LORD told him,‘ Curse David!’ Therefore, who can say,‘ Why did you do that?’”Then David said to Abishai and all his servants,“ Look, my own son, my own flesh and blood, intends to take my life— how much more now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone and let him curse me; the LORD has told him to.Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and restore goodness to me instead of Shimei’s curses today.”So David and his men proceeded along the road as Shimei was going along the ridge of the hill opposite him. As Shimei went, he cursed David, threw stones at him, and kicked up dust.Finally, the king and all the people with him arrived exhausted, so they rested there.Now Absalom and all the Israelites came to Jerusalem. Ahithophel was also with him.When David’s friend Hushai the Archite came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom,“ Long live the king! Long live the king!”“ Is this your loyalty to your friend?” Absalom asked Hushai.“ Why didn’t you go with your friend?”“ Not at all,” Hushai answered Absalom.“ I am on the side of the one that the LORD, this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen. I will stay with him.Furthermore, whom will I serve if not his son? As I served in your father’s presence, I will also serve in yours.”Then Absalom said to Ahithophel,“ Give me your advice. What should we do?”Ahithophel replied to Absalom,“ Sleep with your father’s concubines whom he left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become repulsive to your father, everyone with you will be encouraged.”So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.Now the advice Ahithophel gave in those days was like someone asking about a word from God— such was the regard that both David and Absalom had for Ahithophel’s advice.
