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NASB | Hebrews 12:6 FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 12:6 FOR THE LORD DISCIPLINES and CORRECTS THOSE WHOM HE LOVES, AND HE PUNISHES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES and WELCOMES [TO HIS HEART]." [Prov 3:11, 12] |
Bible Question:
When God exercises His punishment or teachings through:- - afflictions - His "absence" or silence Which is more severe to a believer? Shalom Azure |
Bible Answer: "Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin: would you, therefore, be fitted for afflictions, be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what afflictions soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. "If thou canst hear and bear the rod of affliction which God shall lay upon thee, remember this lesson -- thou art beaten that thou mayest be better. "The Lord useth his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat. "The school of the cross is the school of light; it discovers the world’s vanity, baseness, and wickedness, and lets us see more of God’s mind. Out of dark affliction comes a spiritual light. "In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. "Did we heartily renounce the pleasures of this world, we should be very little troubled for our afflictions; that which renders an afflicted state so insupportable to many is because they are too much addicted to the pleasures of this life, and so cannot endure that which makes a separation between them." --Mr. John Bunyan's Dying Sayings, chapter 2 |