Summary: 12 verses about discipline

DISCIPLINE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT (NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE)

1 Corinthians 9:27 -but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Ephesians 6:4 - Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Colossians 2:5 - For even though I am absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good discipline and the stability of your faith in Christ.

1 Timothy 4:7 - But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;

1 Timothy 4:8 - for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

2 Timothy 1:7 - For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.

Hebrews 12:5 - and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, "MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;

Hebrews 12:7 - It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Hebrews 12:8 - But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

Hebrews 12:9 - Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?

Hebrews 12:11 - All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

Revelation 3:19 – `Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.