“You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 8 contains 20 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.