KJV King James Version
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Hebrews 12:8
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
WEB World English Bible
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.
ASV American Standard Version
But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.
Surrounding context — Hebrews 12
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
εἰG1487 · eiifδὲG1161 · dethenχωρίςG5565 · chōriswithoutἐστεG1510 · eimito beπαιδείαςG3809 · paideiadisciplineἧςG3739 · hos, hēwhichμέτοχοιG3353 · metochospartakerγεγόνασινG1096 · ginomaito beπάντες,G3956 · pasallἄραG686 · arathereforeνόθοιG3541 · nothosillegitimateκαὶG2532 · kaiandοὐχG3756 · ounoυἱοίG5207 · uhiossonἐστε.G1510 · eimito be
Cross-references
Hebrews 12:6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.1 Peter 5:9-10Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.Psalm 73:1A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart.Psalm 73:14-15For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
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