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Because the Lord corrects everyone he loves,
    and punishes everyone he accepts as a child.”

Endure what you suffer as being a father's punishment; your suffering shows that God is treating you as his children. Was there ever a child who was not punished by his father? If you are not punished, as all his children are, it means you are not real children, but bastards.

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