Deuteronomy
And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
Job
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Psalms
Proverbs
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Isaiah
LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Jeremiah
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
Ezekiel
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
Hosea
Zephaniah
She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.