Jam 4:13-17 Do Not Boast About Tomorrow
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Heb 12:5-11 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
“My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For whom the Lord loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.” If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Prov 15:31-32 The ear that hears the rebukes of life Will abide among the wise. He who disdains instruction despises his own soul,
But he who heeds rebuke gets understanding.

Prov 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp, And the law a light;
Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Psa 94:12-13 Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord,
And teach out of Your law, That You may give him rest from the days of adversity,
Until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Prov 9:7-9 “He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself,
And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself. Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you;
Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser;
Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning
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