In Romans 4: 1-8, especially focusing on verses 7 and 8, (“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin” – NKJV), one reads that the ungodly who come to believe in God (v.5) that their “faith is accounted (imputed or credited – Life Application Study Bible, KJV, Tyndale Press) for righteousness [or just, meet, right, justification (or to be right in the sight of God –
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“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous, therefore, and repent.” Rev. 3:19 KJV
God’s love includes rebuke and to be chasten.
So as God loves us part of that love involves rebuke or elegcho which means to confute, admonish, convict, convince, to tell a fault, reprove (The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, James Strong, L.L.D., S.T.D. Thomas Nelson Publishers).
Part of God’s love is also to chasten or paideuo which means to (by punishment) instruct,
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