chastenings

These were chastenings, at present not joyous but grievous; but they would work out for him a more eternal weight of glory.

God says that His children endure chastenings and others who are not His children do not.

Bartrow took the thrust good-naturedly, as he did most of his chastenings.

Some were in the form of mercies, many were in the form of chastenings.

All are designed to serve as chastenings with a view to ultimate good.