Psalms 119:71
It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
BSB
ASV
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn thy statutes.
KJV
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Affliction reframed as instruction: it drove the psalmist to God's statutes
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Psalms 119:67Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.
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I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
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1 Corinthians 11:32But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
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And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.
Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Sin abounded by the law because through the law came knowledge of sin, and it became harmful for me to know what through my weakness I could not avoid. It is good to know beforehand what one is to avoid, but, if I cannot avoid something, it is harmful to have known about it. Thus was the law changed to its opposite, yet it became useful to me by the very increase of sin, for I was humbled. And David therefore says, "It is good for me that I have been humbled."
