Lexicon :: Strong's G3811 - paideuō

“But if after these things you will not obey me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins.

“If in spite of these things you do not accept my discipline, but act with hostility toward me,

“I will act with furious hostility toward you; I will also discipline you seven times for your sins.

“He let you hear his voice from heaven to instruct you. He showed you his great fire on earth, and you heard his words from the fire.

“Keep in mind that the LORD your God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.

“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him,

Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him.

He found him in a desolate land,

in a barren, howling wilderness;

he surrounded him, cared for him,

and protected him as the pupil of his eye.

God ​— ​he grants me vengeance

and casts down peoples under me.

“Although my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.’ ”[fn]

and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice: “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.”

“Now therefore, my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.’ ”[fn]

and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy,[fn] but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.”

Mordecai was the legal guardian of his cousin[fn] Hadassah (that is, Esther), because she had no father or mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was extremely good-looking. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter.

So now, kings, be wise;

receive instruction, you judges of the earth.

LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger;

do not discipline me in your wrath.

I will bless the LORD who counsels me —

even at night when my thoughts trouble me.[fn]

LORD, do not punish me in your anger

or discipline me in your wrath.

“You discipline a person with punishment for iniquity,

consuming like a moth what is precious to him;

yes, every human being is only a vapor.Selah

Our lives last[fn] seventy years

or, if we are strong, eighty years.

Even the best of them are[fn] struggle and sorrow;

indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.

The one who instructs nations,

the one who teaches mankind knowledge —

does he not discipline?

LORD, how happy is anyone you discipline

and teach from your law

binding[fn] his officials at will

and instructing his elders.

The LORD disciplined me severely

but did not give me over to death.

Let the righteous one strike me —

it is an act of faithful love;

let him rebuke me —

it is oil for my head;

let me[fn] not refuse it.

Even now my prayer is against

the evil acts of the wicked.[fn]

for the LORD disciplines the one he loves,

just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.

“I didn’t obey my teachers

or listen closely[fn] to my instructors.

“The one who corrects a mocker

will bring abuse on himself;

the one who rebukes the wicked will get hurt.[fn]

Idle hands make one poor,

but diligent hands bring riches.

The one who will not use the rod hates his son,

but the one who loves him disciplines him diligently.

Discipline your son while there is hope;

don’t set your heart on being the cause of his death.[fn]

A sensible person sees danger and takes cover,

but the inexperienced keep going and are punished.

Don’t withhold discipline from a youth;

if you punish him with a rod, he will not die.

Someone burdened by bloodguilt[fn]

will be a fugitive until death.

Let no one help him.

Discipline your child, and it will bring you peace of mind

and give you delight.

A servant cannot be disciplined by words;

though he understands, he doesn’t respond.

The words of King Lemuel,

a pronouncement[fn] that his mother taught him:

His God teaches him order;

he instructs him.

“Listen to me, house of Jacob,

all the remnant of the house of Israel,

who have been sustained from the womb,

carried along since birth.

Your own evil will discipline you;

your own apostasies will reprimand you.

Recognize[fn] how evil and bitter it is

for you to abandon the LORD your God

and to have no fear of me.

This is the declaration

of the Lord GOD of Armies.

Be warned, Jerusalem,

or I will turn away from you;

I will make you a desolation,

a land without inhabitants.

Discipline me, LORD, but with justice —

not in your anger,

or you will reduce me to nothing.

I have surely heard Ephraim moaning,

“You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined

like an untrained calf.

Take me back, so that I can return,

for you, LORD, are my God.

And you, my servant Jacob, do not be afraid —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

for I will be with you.

I will bring destruction on all the nations

where I have banished you,

but I will not bring destruction on you.

I will discipline you with justice,

and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

“So I will put an end to depravity in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your depraved behavior.

Yes, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!

As they are going, I will spread my net over them;

I will bring them down like birds of the sky.

I will discipline them in accordance

with the news that reaches[fn] their assembly.

They do not cry to me from their hearts;

rather, they wail on their beds.

They slash themselves[fn] for grain and new wine;

they turn away from me.

I will discipline them at my discretion;

nations will be gathered against them

to put them in bondage[fn]

for their double iniquity.