Bible verses about "correction" | Living_Oracles

¹⁵ If you love me, keep my commandments;

⁴ Now whatever things were before written, were written for our instruction: that through the patience and admonition of the scriptures, we might have hope.

¹⁹ Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but give place to the wrath of God; for it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."

¹⁹ Brethren, if any one among you be seduced from the truth, and any one turn him back; ²⁰ let him know what he who converts a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

¹² For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

¹⁶ All scripture, given by divine inspiration, is indeed profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: ¹⁷ that the man of God may be perfect-completely fitted for every good work.

⁵ Besides, have you forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's chastisement, neither faint when you are rebuked by him: ⁶ for whom the Lord loves he chastises, and scourges every son whom he receives." ⁷ If you endure chastisement, God deals with you as his children. For what son is there whom his father does not chastise? ⁸ But if you be without chastisement, of which all sons are partakers, certainly you are bastards, and not sons. ⁹ Farther, we have had fathers of our flesh, who chastised us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they, indeed, during a very few days, chastised us according to their pleasure; but he, for our advantage, that we might be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ Now, no chastisement, indeed, for the present, seems to be matter of joy, but of sorrow. Nevertheless, afterward it returns the peaceful fruit of righteousness to them who are trained by it.

¹⁶ All scripture, given by divine inspiration, is indeed profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

¹¹ Now, no chastisement, indeed, for the present, seems to be matter of joy, but of sorrow. Nevertheless, afterward it returns the peaceful fruit of righteousness to them who are trained by it.