168 verses

Gen 20: 16

(NIV)
To Sarah he said, ‘I am giving your brother a thousand shekels of silver. This is to cover the offence against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.’

(ESV)
To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is a sign of your innocence in the eyes of all who are with you, and before everyone you are vindicated.”

Gen 21: 25

(NIV)
Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had seized.
(ESV)
When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

Gen 24: 14

(NIV)
May it be that when I say to a young woman, “Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,” and she says, “Drink, and I’ll water your camels too” – let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.’

(ESV)
Let the young woman to whom I shall say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.”

Gen 24: 44

(NIV)
and if she says to me, ‘Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels too,’ let her be the one the Lord has chosen for my master’s son.”

(ESV)
and who will say to me, “Drink, and I will draw for your camels also,” let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.’

Gen 31: 37

(NIV)
Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household? Put it here in front of your relatives and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.

(ESV)
For you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.

Gen 31: 42

(NIV)
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.’

(ESV)
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.”

Lev 19: 17

(NIV)
‘“Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbour frankly so that you will not share in their guilt.

(ESV)
“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.

Lev 26: 18

(NIV)
‘“If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over.
(ESV)
And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,

Lev 26: 23

(NIV)
‘“If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile towards me,
(ESV)
“And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,

Lev 26: 28

(NIV)
then in my anger I will be hostile towards you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.
(ESV)
then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.

Deut 4: 36

(NIV)
From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire.
(ESV)
Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.

Deut 8: 5

(NIV)
Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

(ESV)
Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.

Deut 11: 2

(NIV)
Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm;
(ESV)
And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,

Deut 21: 18

(NIV)
If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him,
(ESV)
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,

Deut 22: 18

(NIV)
and the elders shall take the man and punish him.
(ESV)
Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him,

2Sam 7: 14

(NIV)
I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands.
(ESV)
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,

2Sam 24: 12

(NIV)
‘Go and tell David, “This is what the Lord says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.”’

(ESV)
Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’”

1Kgs 12: 11

(NIV)
My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”’

(ESV)
And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

1Kgs 12: 14

(NIV)
he followed the advice of the young men and said, ‘My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.’
(ESV)
he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

2Kgs 19: 4

(NIV)
It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.’

(ESV)
It may be that the Lord your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.”

1Chr 12: 17

(NIV)
David went out to meet them and said to them, ‘If you have come to me in peace to help me, I am ready for you to join me. But if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free from violence, may the God of our ancestors see it and judge you.’

(ESV)
David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be joined to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you.”

1Chr 15: 22

(NIV)
Kenaniah the head Levite was in charge of the singing; that was his responsibility because he was skilful at it.

(ESV)
Chenaniah, leader of the Levites in music, should direct the music, for he understood it.

1Chr 16: 21

(NIV)
He allowed no one to oppress them;
for their sake he rebuked kings:
(ESV)
he allowed no one to oppress them;
he rebuked kings on their account,

2Chr 10: 11

(NIV)
My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”’

(ESV)
And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

2Chr 10: 14

(NIV)
he followed the advice of the young men and said, ‘My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.’
(ESV)
King Rehoboam spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

Job 4: 3

(NIV)
Think how you have instructed many,
how you have strengthened feeble hands.
(ESV)
Behold, you have instructed many,
and you have strengthened the weak hands.

Job 5: 17

(NIV)
‘Blessed is the one whom God corrects;
so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
(ESV)
Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves;
therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.

Job 6: 25

(NIV)
How painful are honest words!
But what do your arguments prove?
(ESV)
How forceful are upright words!
But what does reproof from you reprove?

Job 6: 26

(NIV)
Do you mean to correct what I say,
and treat my desperate words as wind?
(ESV)
Do you think that you can reprove words,
when the speech of a despairing man is wind?

Job 9: 33

(NIV)
If only there were someone to mediate between us,
someone to bring us together,
(ESV)
There is no arbiter between us,
who might lay his hand on us both.

Job 12: 18

(NIV)
He takes off the shackles put on by kings
and ties a loincloth round their waist.
(ESV)
He looses the bonds of kings
and binds a waistcloth on their hips.

Job 13: 3

(NIV)
But I desire to speak to the Almighty
and to argue my case with God.
(ESV)
But I would speak to the Almighty,
and I desire to argue my case with God.

Job 13: 10

(NIV)
He would surely call you to account
if you secretly showed partiality.
(ESV)
He will surely rebuke you
if in secret you show partiality.

Job 13: 15

(NIV)
Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him;
I will surely defend my ways to his face.
(ESV)
Though he slay me, I will hope in him;
yet I will argue my ways to his face.

Job 15: 3

(NIV)
Would they argue with useless words,
with speeches that have no value?
(ESV)
Should he argue in unprofitable talk,
or in words with which he can do no good?

Job 16: 21

(NIV)
on behalf of a man he pleads with God
as one pleads for a friend.
(ESV)
that he would argue the case of a man with God,
as a son of man does with his neighbor.

Job 19: 5

(NIV)
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me
and use my humiliation against me,
(ESV)
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me
and make my disgrace an argument against me,

Job 20: 3

(NIV)
I hear a rebuke that dishonours me,
and my understanding inspires me to reply.
(ESV)
I hear censure that insults me,
and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.

Job 22: 4

(NIV)
‘Is it for your piety that he rebukes you
and brings charges against you?
(ESV)
Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you
and enters into judgment with you?

Job 23: 7

(NIV)
There the upright can establish their innocence before him,
and there I would be delivered for ever from my judge.
(ESV)
There an upright man could argue with him,
and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

Job 32: 12

(NIV)
I gave you my full attention.
But not one of you has proved Job wrong;
none of you has answered his arguments.
(ESV)
I gave you my attention,
and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job
or who answered his words.

Job 33: 16

(NIV)
he may speak in their ears
and terrify them with warnings,
(ESV)
then he opens the ears of men
and terrifies them with warnings,

Job 33: 19

(NIV)
‘Or someone may be chastened on a bed of pain
with constant distress in their bones,
(ESV)
“Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed
and with continual strife in his bones,

Job 36: 10

(NIV)
He makes them listen to correction
and commands them to repent of their evil.
(ESV)
He opens their ears to instruction
and commands that they return from iniquity.

Job 40: 2

(NIV)
‘Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him?
Let him who accuses God answer him!’
(ESV)
“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty?
He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Ps 2: 10

(NIV)
Therefore, you kings, be wise;
be warned, you rulers of the earth.
(ESV)
Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.

(NIV)

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith. A psalm of David.

(ESV)

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

Ps 6: 1

(NIV)
Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.
(ESV)
O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger,
nor discipline me in your wrath.

Ps 16: 7

(NIV)
I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;
even at night my heart instructs me.
(ESV)
I bless the Lord who gives me counsel;
in the night also my heart instructs me.

(NIV)

A psalm of David. A petition.

(ESV)

A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.

Ps 38: 1

(NIV)
Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.
(ESV)
O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger,
nor discipline me in your wrath!

Ps 39: 11

(NIV)
When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin,
you consume their wealth like a moth –
surely everyone is but a breath.
(ESV)
When you discipline a man
with rebukes for sin,
you consume like a moth what is dear to him;
surely all mankind is a mere breath!  Selah

Ps 50: 8

(NIV)
I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices
or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
(ESV)
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;
your burnt offerings are continually before me.

Ps 50: 17

(NIV)
You hate my instruction
and cast my words behind you.
(ESV)
For you hate discipline,
and you cast my words behind you.

Ps 50: 21

(NIV)
When you did these things and I kept silent,
you thought I was exactly like you.
But I now arraign you
and set my accusations before you.
(ESV)
These things you have done, and I have been silent;
you thought that I was one like yourself.
But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

Ps 94: 10

(NIV)
Does he who disciplines nations not punish?
Does he who teaches mankind lack knowledge?
(ESV)
He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke?
He who teaches man knowledge

Ps 94: 12

(NIV)
Blessed is the one you discipline, Lord,
the one you teach from your law;
(ESV)
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord,
and whom you teach out of your law,

Ps 105: 14

(NIV)
He allowed no one to oppress them;
for their sake he rebuked kings:
(ESV)
he allowed no one to oppress them;
he rebuked kings on their account,

Ps 118: 18

(NIV)
The Lord has chastened me severely,
but he has not given me over to death.
(ESV)
The Lord has disciplined me severely,
but he has not given me over to death.

Ps 141: 5

(NIV)
Let a righteous man strike me – that is a kindness;
let him rebuke me – that is oil on my head.
My head will not refuse it,
for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.
(ESV)
Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;
let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;
let my head not refuse it.
Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.

Prov 1: 2

(NIV)
for gaining wisdom and instruction;
for understanding words of insight;
(ESV)
To know wisdom and instruction,
to understand words of insight,

Prov 1: 3

(NIV)
for receiving instruction in prudent behaviour,
doing what is right and just and fair;
(ESV)
to receive instruction in wise dealing,
in righteousness, justice, and equity;
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