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1 Corinthians 11 32
Yet when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
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2 Corinthians 6 9
We are ignored, even though we are well known. We live close to death, but we are still alive. We have been beaten, but we have not been killed.
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Job 5:17-18
“ But consider the joy of those corrected by God! Do not despise the discipline of the Almighty when you sin.For though he wounds, he also bandages. He strikes, but his hands also heal.
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Hebrews 12:10-11
For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness.No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening— it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.
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2 Samuel 12 10
From this time on, your family will live by the sword because you have despised me by taking Uriah’s wife to be your own.
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Psalms 94:12-13
Joyful are those you discipline, Lord, those you teach with your instructions.You give them relief from troubled times until a pit is dug to capture the wicked.
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Proverbs 3:11-12
My child, don’t reject the Lord’s discipline, and don’t be upset when he corrects you.For the Lord corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights.
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2 Corinthians 1 9-2 Corinthians 1 11
In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who raises the dead.And he did rescue us from mortal danger, and he will rescue us again. We have placed our confidence in him, and he will continue to rescue us.And you are helping us by praying for us. Then many people will give thanks because God has graciously answered so many prayers for our safety.
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Psalms 66:10-12
You have tested us, O God; you have purified us like silver.You captured us in your net and laid the burden of slavery on our backs.Then you put a leader over us. We went through fire and flood, but you brought us to a place of great abundance.
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Jonah 2:6
I sank down to the very roots of the mountains. I was imprisoned in the earth, whose gates lock shut forever. But you, O Lord my God, snatched me from the jaws of death!
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Job 33:16-30
He whispers in their ears and terrifies them with warnings.He makes them turn from doing wrong; he keeps them from pride.He protects them from the grave, from crossing over the river of death.“ Or God disciplines people with pain on their sickbeds, with ceaseless aching in their bones.They lose their appetite for even the most delicious food.Their flesh wastes away, and their bones stick out.They are at death’s door; the angels of death wait for them.“ But if an angel from heaven appears— a special messenger to intercede for a person and declare that he is upright—he will be gracious and say,‘ Rescue him from the grave, for I have found a ransom for his life.’Then his body will become as healthy as a child’s, firm and youthful again.When he prays to God, he will be accepted. And God will receive him with joy and restore him to good standing.He will declare to his friends,‘ I sinned and twisted the truth, but it was not worth it.God rescued me from the grave, and now my life is filled with light.’“ Yes, God does these things again and again for people.He rescues them from the grave so they may enjoy the light of life.
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2 Samuel 13 1-2 Samuel 13 39
Now David’s son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar. And Amnon, her half brother, fell desperately in love with her.Amnon became so obsessed with Tamar that he became ill. She was a virgin, and Amnon thought he could never have her.But Amnon had a very crafty friend— his cousin Jonadab. He was the son of David’s brother Shimea.One day Jonadab said to Amnon,“ What’s the trouble? Why should the son of a king look so dejected morning after morning?” So Amnon told him,“ I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”“ Well,” Jonadab said,“ I’ll tell you what to do. Go back to bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, ask him to let Tamar come and prepare some food for you. Tell him you’ll feel better if she prepares it as you watch and feeds you with her own hands.”So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. And when the king came to see him, Amnon asked him,“ Please let my sister Tamar come and cook my favorite dish as I watch. Then I can eat it from her own hands.”So David agreed and sent Tamar to Amnon’s house to prepare some food for him.When Tamar arrived at Amnon’s house, she went to the place where he was lying down so he could watch her mix some dough. Then she baked his favorite dish for him.But when she set the serving tray before him, he refused to eat.“ Everyone get out of here,” Amnon told his servants. So they all left.Then he said to Tamar,“ Now bring the food into my bedroom and feed it to me here.” So Tamar took his favorite dish to him.But as she was feeding him, he grabbed her and demanded,“ Come to bed with me, my darling sister.”“ No, my brother!” she cried.“ Don’t be foolish! Don’t do this to me! Such wicked things aren’t done in Israel.Where could I go in my shame? And you would be called one of the greatest fools in Israel. Please, just speak to the king about it, and he will let you marry me.”But Amnon wouldn’t listen to her, and since he was stronger than she was, he raped her.Then suddenly Amnon’s love turned to hate, and he hated her even more than he had loved her.“ Get out of here!” he snarled at her.“ No, no!” Tamar cried.“ Sending me away now is worse than what you’ve already done to me.” But Amnon wouldn’t listen to her.He shouted for his servant and demanded,“ Throw this woman out, and lock the door behind her!”So the servant put her out and locked the door behind her. She was wearing a long, beautiful robe, as was the custom in those days for the king’s virgin daughters.But now Tamar tore her robe and put ashes on her head. And then, with her face in her hands, she went away crying.Her brother Absalom saw her and asked,“ Is it true that Amnon has been with you? Well, my sister, keep quiet for now, since he’s your brother. Don’t you worry about it.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in her brother Absalom’s house.When King David heard what had happened, he was very angry.And though Absalom never spoke to Amnon about this, he hated Amnon deeply because of what he had done to his sister.Two years later, when Absalom’s sheep were being sheared at Baal hazor near Ephraim, Absalom invited all the king’s sons to come to a feast.He went to the king and said,“ My sheep shearers are now at work. Would the king and his servants please come to celebrate the occasion with me?”The king replied,“ No, my son. If we all came, we would be too much of a burden on you.” Absalom pressed him, but the king would not come, though he gave Absalom his blessing.“ Well, then,” Absalom said,“ if you can’t come, how about sending my brother Amnon with us?”“ Why Amnon?” the king asked.But Absalom kept on pressing the king until he finally agreed to let all his sons attend, including Amnon. So Absalom prepared a feast fit for a king.Absalom told his men,“ Wait until Amnon gets drunk; then at my signal, kill him! Don’t be afraid. I’m the one who has given the command. Take courage and do it!”So at Absalom’s signal they murdered Amnon. Then the other sons of the king jumped on their mules and fled.As they were on the way back to Jerusalem, this report reached David:“ Absalom has killed all the king’s sons; not one is left alive!”The king got up, tore his robe, and threw himself on the ground. His advisers also tore their clothes in horror and sorrow.But just then Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimea, arrived and said,“ No, don’t believe that all the king’s sons have been killed! It was only Amnon! Absalom has been plotting this ever since Amnon raped his sister Tamar.No, my lord the king, your sons aren’t all dead! It was only Amnon.”Meanwhile Absalom escaped. Then the watchman on the Jerusalem wall saw a great crowd coming down the hill on the road from the west. He ran to tell the king,“ I see a crowd of people coming from the Horonaim road along the side of the hill.”“ Look!” Jonadab told the king.“ There they are now! The king’s sons are coming, just as I said.”They soon arrived, weeping and sobbing, and the king and all his servants wept bitterly with them.And David mourned many days for his son Amnon. Absalom fled to his grandfather, Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur.He stayed there in Geshur for three years.And King David, now reconciled to Amnon’s death, longed to be reunited with his son Absalom.
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2 Samuel 16 1-2 Samuel 16 23
When David had gone a little beyond the summit of the Mount of Olives, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, was waiting there for him. He had two donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 bunches of summer fruit, and a wineskin full of wine.“ What are these for?” the king asked Ziba. Ziba replied,“ The donkeys are for the king’s people to ride on, and the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat. The wine is for those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”“ And where is Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson?” the king asked him.“ He stayed in Jerusalem,” Ziba replied.“ He said,‘ Today I will get back the kingdom of my grandfather Saul.’”“ In that case,” the king told Ziba,“ I give you everything Mephibosheth owns.”“ I bow before you,” Ziba replied.“ May I always be pleasing to you, my lord the king.”As King David came to Bahurim, a man came out of the village cursing them. It was Shimei son of Gera, from the same clan as Saul’s family.He threw stones at the king and the king’s officers and all the mighty warriors who surrounded him.“ Get out of here, you murderer, you scoundrel!” he shouted at David.“ The Lord is paying you back for all the bloodshed in Saul’s clan. You stole his throne, and now the Lord has given it to your son Absalom. At last you will taste some of your own medicine, for you are a murderer!”“ Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king?” Abishai son of Zeruiah demanded.“ Let me go over and cut off his head!”“ No!” the king said.“ Who asked your opinion, you sons of Zeruiah! If the Lord has told him to curse me, who are you to stop him?”Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants,“ My own son is trying to kill me. Doesn’t this relative of Saul have even more reason to do so? Leave him alone and let him curse, for the Lord has told him to do it.And perhaps the Lord will see that I am being wronged and will bless me because of these curses today.”So David and his men continued down the road, and Shimei kept pace with them on a nearby hillside, cursing and throwing stones and dirt at David.The king and all who were with him grew weary along the way, so they rested when they reached the Jordan River.Meanwhile, Absalom and all the army of Israel arrived at Jerusalem, accompanied by Ahithophel.When David’s friend Hushai the Arkite arrived, he went immediately to see Absalom.“ Long live the king!” he exclaimed.“ Long live the king!”“ Is this the way you treat your friend David?” Absalom asked him.“ Why aren’t you with him?”“ I’m here because I belong to the man who is chosen by the Lord and by all the men of Israel,” Hushai replied.“ And anyway, why shouldn’t I serve you? Just as I was your father’s adviser, now I will be your adviser!”Then Absalom turned to Ahithophel and asked him,“ What should I do next?”Ahithophel told him,“ Go and sleep with your father’s concubines, for he has left them here to look after the palace. Then all Israel will know that you have insulted your father beyond hope of reconciliation, and they will throw their support to you.”So they set up a tent on the palace roof where everyone could see it, and Absalom went in and had sex with his father’s concubines.Absalom followed Ahithophel’s advice, just as David had done. For every word Ahithophel spoke seemed as wise as though it had come directly from the mouth of God.
