⁵ Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

⁹ I will bring the third part into the fire, And will refine them as silver is refined, And will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' And they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"

⁷ Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

⁵ and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him;

⁶ For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives."

⁷ It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

⁸ But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

⁹ Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

¹⁰ For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

¹⁹ However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord{TR reads "Christ" instead of "the Lord"} depart from unrighteousness."

⁹ But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elements, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

³ But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

²⁸ We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

¹² But he answered, 'Most assuredly I tell you, I don't know you.'

⁷¹ It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I may learn your statutes.

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted, I went astray; But now I observe your word.

¹² Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, And teach out of your law;

¹³ That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴ For Yahweh won't reject his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.

¹⁶ who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end: