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For the present (pros to paron). A classical phrase (Thucydides), pros with the accusative neuter singular articular participle of pareimi, to be beside.
Not joyous, but grievous (ou charas, alla lupēs). Predicate ablative (springing from) or predicate genitive (marked by). Either makes sense, but note predicate ablative in 2Co 4:7 (kai tou theou kai mē ex hēmōn).
Peaceable fruit (karpon eirēnikon). Old adjective from eirēnē (peace), in N.T. only here and Jam 3:17. Peaceable after the chastening is over.
Exercised thereby (di' autēs gegumnasmenois). Perfect passive participle (dative case) of gumnazō, state of completion, picturing the discipline as a gymnasium like Heb 5:14; 1Ti 4:7.