The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

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

But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.