Deuteronomy 8:2,5  "You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. • "Thus you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.

Psalm 119:75,71,67  I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me. • It is good for me that I was afflicted, That I may learn Your statutes. • Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word.

Psalm 118:18  The LORD has disciplined me severely, But He has not given me over to death.

Psalm 103:10,11,14  He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. • For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him. • For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust.

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