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Proverbs 3:11

Good News Translation

My child, when the Lord corrects you, pay close attention and take it as a warning.

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Now it's your turn to be in trouble, and you are too stunned to face it.

Happy is the person whom God corrects! Do not resent it when he rebukes you.

Lord, how happy are those you instruct, the ones to whom you teach your law!

If you are weak in a crisis, you are weak indeed.

But we are judged and punished by the Lord, so that we shall not be condemned together with the world.

God in his mercy has given us this work to do, and so we do not become discouraged.

Remember that the Lord your God corrects and punishes you just as parents discipline their children.

Think of what he went through; how he put up with so much hatred from sinners! So do not let yourselves become discouraged and give up.

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.