◄ Hebrews 12:8 ►
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Good News Translation
If you are not punished, as all his children are, it means you are not real children, but bastards.

New Revised Standard Version
If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.

Contemporary English Version
God corrects all his children, and if he doesn't correct you, then you don't really belong to him.

New American Bible
If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards and not sons.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards and not sons.

Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Psalm 73:1,14,15 A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart! . . .

1 Peter 5:9,10 Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls, your brethren who are in the world. . . .

Context
God Disciplines His Sons
…7Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct? 8But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards and not sons. 9Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and we reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and live?…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:32
But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

1 Peter 5:9
Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls, your brethren who are in the world.

Hebrews 12:7
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