Be on your guard! Make certain that you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Tell your children and your grandchildren

about the day you stood in the presence of the LORD your God at Mount Sinai, when he said to me, 'Assemble the people. I want them to hear what I have to say, so that they will learn to obey me as long as they live and so that they will teach their children to do the same.'

I take pleasure in your laws; your commands I will not forget.

I am as useless as a discarded wineskin; yet I have not forgotten your commands.

I am always ready to risk my life; I have not forgotten your law.

My child, don't forget what I teach you. Always remember what I tell you to do.

Get wisdom and insight! Do not forget or ignore what I say.

Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand men? How many baskets did you fill?

And what about the seven loaves for the four thousand men? How many baskets did you fill?

He is not here; he has been raised. Remember what he said to you while he was in Galilee:

Then the women remembered his words,

Endure what you suffer as being a father's punishment; your suffering shows that God is treating you as his children. Was there ever a child who was not punished by his father?

My child, when the LORD corrects you, pay close attention and take it as a warning.

The LORD corrects those he loves, as parents correct a child of whom they are proud.

Happy is the person whom God corrects! Do not resent it when he rebukes you.

God bandages the wounds he makes; his hand hurts you, and his hand heals.

Job, have you confessed your sins to God and promised not to sin again?

LORD, how happy are those you instruct, the ones to whom you teach your law!

He has punished me severely, but he has not let me die.

I know that your judgments are righteous, LORD, and that you punished me because you are faithful.

"I hear the people of Israel say in grief, ' LORD, we were like an untamed animal, but you taught us to obey. Bring us back; we are ready to return to you, the LORD our God.

But we are judged and punished by the Lord, so that we shall not be condemned together with the world.

Happy are those who remain faithful under trials, because when they succeed in passing such a test, they will receive as their reward the life which God has promised to those who love him.

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.

Think of what he went through; how he put up with so much hatred from sinners! So do not let yourselves become discouraged and give up.

For in your struggle against sin you have not yet had to resist to the point of being killed.

And Joshua said, "Sovereign LORD! Why did you bring us across the Jordan at all? To turn us over to the Amorites? To destroy us? Why didn't we just stay on the other side of the Jordan?

The Canaanites and everyone else in the country will hear about it. They will surround us and kill every one of us! And then what will you do to protect your honor?"

Israel has sinned! They have broken the agreement with me that I ordered them to keep. They have taken some of the things condemned to destruction. They stole them, lied about it, and put them with their own things.

At once the LORD God became angry with Uzzah and killed him because of his irreverence. Uzzah died there beside the Covenant Box,

Then David was afraid of the LORD and said, "How can I take the Covenant Box with me now?"

As they came to the threshing place of Chidon, the oxen stumbled, and Uzzah reached out and took hold of the Covenant Box.

and so that place has been called Perez Uzzah ever since. David was furious because the LORD had punished Uzzah in anger.

So David did not take it with him to Jerusalem. Instead, he left it at the house of a man named Obed Edom, a native of the city of Gath.

He said to the Levites, "You are the leaders of the Levite clans. Purify yourselves and your fellow Levites, so that you can bring the Covenant Box of the LORD God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.

Because you were not there to carry it the first time, the LORD our God punished us for not worshiping him as we should have done."

LORD, don't be angry and rebuke me! Don't punish me in your anger!

I am worn out, O LORD; have pity on me! Give me strength; I am completely exhausted

We are often troubled, but not crushed; sometimes in doubt, but never in despair;

there are many enemies, but we are never without a friend; and though badly hurt at times, we are not destroyed.

But his answer was: "My grace is all you need, for my power is greatest when you are weak." I am most happy, then, to be proud of my weaknesses, in order to feel the protection of Christ's power over me.

I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.