12:5-7, 11

Discipline refers to chastisement, correction, instruction, and education. Just as a loving father disciplines his children, Jehovah disciplines us. We receive discipline by means of . . .

• Bible reading, personal study, meeting attendance, and meditation

• Counsel or correction from a fellow believer

• The consequences of our mistakes

• Judicial reproof or disfellowshipping

• Trials or persecution that Jehovah allows.​—w15 9/15 21 ¶13; it-1 629