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Discipline

Hebrews 12:11 (NIV84)
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

Belief through strife

Habakkuk 3:17-18 (NIV)
Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,

Present sufferings

Romans 8:18 (NIV)
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

Spanking

Proverbs 23:13-14 (NIV)
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.

Ary and Lilly's verses

Colossians 1:9-12 (NIV84)
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.

Tithe

Malachi 3:10 (NIV)
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.

In Weakness, strength

2 Corinthians 12:10 (NIV84)
That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Jesus calms the storm

Mark 4:35 (NIV)
That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, "Let us go over to the other side."

Sexual sin leading to major deaths

1 Corinthians 10:8 (ESV)
We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

Jesus promises trouble

John 16:33 (ESV)
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."

Troubles covered with salvation

Isaiah 51:5-8 (NIV)
My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm.

Isaiah 51:12 (NIV)
"I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mere mortals, human beings who are but grass,

People of the world and their lusts

2 Peter 2:12-14 (ESV)
But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,

Consequences of cheating on your wife

Job 31:9-10 (NIV)
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor's door,

Job's suffering and lament towards God

Job 30:20 (NIV)
"I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.

Eye covenant

Job 31:1 (NIV)
"I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.

Christians who turn away

2 Peter 2:20-22 (ESV)
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

Rescue Godly from trials

2 Peter 2:9-10 (ESV)
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

No orgies!

Romans 13:13 (ESV)
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Sufferring

1 Peter 4:12-19 (ESV)
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Desires

1 Peter 4:2-4 (ESV)
so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.

Temptation

James 1:13-15 (NLT)
And remember, when you are being tempted, do not say, “God is tempting me.” God is never tempted to do wrong, and he never tempts anyone else.

Sexual sin

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 (NLT)
Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.