Deuteronomy 8:5
Good News Translation
Remember that the LORD your God corrects and punishes you just as parents discipline their children.

New Revised Standard Version
Know then in your heart that as a parent disciplines a child so the LORD your God disciplines you.

Contemporary English Version
So keep in mind that the LORD has been correcting you, just as parents correct their children.

New American Bible
So you must know in your heart that, even as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD, your God, disciplines you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.

consider

Deuteronomy 4:9,23 Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons, . . .

Isaiah 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

Ezekiel 12:3 Thou, therefore, O son of man, prepare thee all necessaries for removing, and remove by day into their sight: and thou shalt remove out of thy place to another place in their sight, if so be they will regard it: for they are a provoking house.

Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die.

as a man

2 Samuel 7:14 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

Job 5:17,18 Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord. . . .

Psalm 89:32 I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with stripes.

Psalm 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.

Proverbs 3:12 Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and is rich in prudence:

1 Corinthians 11:32 But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

Hebrews 12:5-11 And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him. . . .

Context
Remember the LORD Your God
4Thy raiment, with which thou wast covered, hath not decayed for age, and thy foot is not worn, lo this is the fortieth year, 5That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.6That thou shouldst keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and fear him.…
Cross References
Hebrews 12:6
For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Hebrews 12:7
Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct?

Revelation 3:19
Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.

Deuteronomy 4:36
From heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might teach thee. And upon earth he shewed thee his exceeding great fire, and thou didst hear his words out of the midst of the fire,

Deuteronomy 8:6
That thou shouldst keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and fear him.

2 Samuel 7:14
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

Psalm 94:12
Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.

Proverbs 3:12
Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and is rich in prudence:

Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes.

Ecclesiastes 7:14
In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.

Deuteronomy 8:4
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