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Discipline
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Discipline names 2 things on this site
- Discipline, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Discipline and Lawsuits, MannaFest, a featured study.A featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
Featured studies
2 results- StudyDiscipline and Lawsuits, MannaFestA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Armor of GodRoman legionary equipment surveyed by Paul as Christian discipline (Eph 6:10–18). Six pieces of armor and a seventh element — prayer — that is posture, not armor. Every piece carries an OT echo.
Verses
59 results- VerseProverbs 1:2for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,
- VerseProverbs 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
- VerseProverbs 15:32He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
- VerseProverbs 15:5A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.
- VerseRevelation 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Words (Strong's)
8 results- WordH4148 מוּסָר · mûwçâr (Hebrew)properly, chastisement. The Hebrew word stands 50 times in the original text.
- WordG3985 πειράζω · peirázō (Greek)to test (objectively), i.e. endeavor, scrutinize, entice, discipline. The Greek word stands 37 times in the original text.
- WordH2596 חָנַךְ · chânak (Hebrew)properly, to narrow. The Hebrew word stands 5 times in the original text.
- WordG3810 παιδευτής · paideutḗs (Greek)a trainer, i.e. teacher or (by implication) discipliner. The Greek word stands 2 times in the original text.
- WordG3986 πειρασμός · peirasmós (Greek)a putting to proof (by experiment (of good), experience (of evil), solicitation, discipline or provocation). The Greek word stands 21 times in the original text.
Themes
5 results- ThemeGraceGrace is God's unearned favor. The Hebrew word for it is *chen* — a gift given because the giver is gracious, not because the receiver has earned it — and it is *chen* that the…
- ThemeWisdomWisdom in Scripture (Hebrew *hokmah*, H2451) is skilled living before God, not accumulated information. Its first appearances are not proverbs but craftsmen: the wise-hearted…
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
- ThemeHope**Biblical hope is not optimism.** It is confident expectation anchored in God's character and God's word, held by people who often cannot see the outcome and sometimes cannot…
- ThemePrayerPrayer enters the canon as a corporate act, not a private technique: "then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah" (Genesis 4:26) describes a community, not a method. The…
Topics
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20 results- VoiceGennadius of ConstantinopleGennadius became patriarch of Constantinople in 458 and held the office until his death in 471. He came in at a hard moment: the Council of Chalcedon was only seven years old…
- VoiceIsaac of NinevehIsaac was born in Beth Qatraye, the Christian region along the western shore of the Persian Gulf, in what is now Qatar. He became a monk young. Around 676 the East Syriac…
- VoiceTertullianQuintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus was born at Carthage around 155, trained in Roman law and rhetoric, and converted as an adult. Jerome says his father was an officer of…
- VoiceTheodorus of TabenneseTheodore was born about 314 in Upper Egypt, to a Christian family with money. The sources say he broke with his household as a boy — at a feast, struck by the thought that the…
- VoiceJohn of KarpathosJohn came from Karpathos, a long thin island in the Aegean between Crete and Rhodes. He is usually placed in the seventh century, and some accounts make him a bishop of the…
Apocrypha (study resources)
10 results- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 6:17For the very true beginning of her is the desire of discipline; and the care of discipline is love;
- Study resourceSirach 18:14He hath mercy on them that receive discipline, and that diligently seek after his judgments.
- Study resourceSirach 32:14Whoso feareth the Lord will receive his discipline; and they that seek him early shall find favour.
- Study resourceSirach 23:7Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: he that keepeth it shall never be taken in his lips.
- Study resourceSirach 17:18Whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him.
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H4148מוּסָר mûwçâr — properly, chastisementG3985πειράζω peirázō — to test (objectively), i.e. endeavor, scrutinize, entice,
disciplineH2596חָנַךְ chânak — properly, to narrowG3810παιδευτής paideutḗs — a trainer, i.e. teacher or (by implication)
disciplinerG3986πειρασμός peirasmós — a putting to proof (by experiment (of good), experience (of
evil), solicitation, discipline or provocation)G4995σωφρονισμός sōphronismós — discipline, i.e. self-control