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    chastening


    1. But what if there isn’t need for chastening? What if we’re blameless? Why would God allow for tribulation and hardship and suffering to befall us? Why would God allow for His children to be martyred or tortured? Does that sound like a loving father? In the Holocaust, where was God? Does that look like a loving father?


    2. They all chuckled at her sudden directness and posture of chastening her friend


    3. Do not despise the chastening of the


    4. despise the chastening of the


    5. “What my colleague is chastening me concerning is that clients ten, fourteen and eighteen,” she hooked her thumb over her shoulder at the ward behind them, “are clearly over-medicated! The Captain can't possibly expect to have what he wants from clients stuck in la-la land all the time!” Jista held her breath, this was a dangerous gambit Reia was playing


    6. 16 Lord, in trouble have they visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them


    7. Hail: Soldiers of Christ; wonders; power; judgment that can only come from God; wrath; glory; chastening; to have a barrage of something hit one as


    8. but for a chastening of our nation


    9. 33 And though the living Lord be angry with us a little while for our chastening and correction, yet


    10. 12 Now I beg those who read this book that they be not discouraged for these calamities but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction but for a chastening of our nation

    11. 33 And though the living Lord be angry with us a little while for our chastening and correction yet shall he be at one again with his servants; 34 But you O godless man and of all other most wicked be not lifted up without a cause nor puffed up with uncertain hopes lifting up your hand against the servants of God; 35 For you have not yet escaped the judgment of Almighty God who sees all things


    12. Do you not remember that it is written: `My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction, for whom the Lord loves he corrects, even as the father corrects the son in whom he takes delight


    13. May You bring us through this time of chastening into a closer walk with You


    14. Except in appearance, and there the right word was havoc, she hadn't changed at all, and appeared to have profited nothing from the usually chastening passage of time


    15. Lord, grant that those who are sick may neither despise the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when they are rebuked of him; but that they may both hear the rod, and him that has appointed it, and may kiss the rod, and accept of the punishment of their iniquity


    16. Chastening is the best and holy bread for me;


    17. I love the hand that is chastening me,


    18. Possibly the Lord in His infinite loving kindness and mercy was chastening this unhappy castaway in order that He might bring him to Himself


    19. ’ How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride!—how consoling in the depths of affliction! ‘And this, too, shall pass away


    20. If it were allowable to entertain partialities, every consideration of blood, language, religion, and interest, would incline us towards England; and yet, shall they be alone extended to France and her ruler, whom we are bound to believe a chastening God suffers as the scourge of a guilty world! On all other nations he tramples—he holds them in contempt—England alone he hates; he would, but he cannot despise her—fear cannot despise

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    Synonyms for "chastening"

    chastening chastisement correction

    "chastening" definitions

    a rebuke for making a mistake