Quotes About Discipline

For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,

I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.

He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?

Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.

You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.

This is my practice, for I obey Your precepts.

I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.

Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.

for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;

for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.

For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive.

Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.

Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.