Quotes About Discipline

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.

Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.

This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.

For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.

I have surely heard Ephraimís moaning: ëYou disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ëNeither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.

And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.

“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: ëWill you not accept discipline and obey My words?í declares the LORD.

The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!

And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.

Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.

Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.

You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.

I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They must not wear anything that makes them perspire.

They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must carefully trim their hair.

No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.

But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the kingís food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.