V. 10.— For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Parents often chastise their children, not so much from principle as from passion; not so much with a desire to do them good, as to gratify their own irritation: but the Father of our spirits only chastens His children for their profit. He makes their own wickedness correct them, and their backslidings to reprove them, that they may know and see that it is an evil thing that they have forsaken the Lord their God, and that His fear was not in them. Jeremiah 2:19.