Hebrews 12:8 “If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are i…”

Hebrews 12:8

If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.

American Standard Version

But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Geneva Bible 1599

If therefore ye be without correction, whereof al are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sonnes.

Darby Translation

But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Young's Literal Translation

and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

Bible in Basic English

But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.

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Cross references

“But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.”

Hebrews 12:6 Psalm 73:1 Psalm 73:14 Psalm 73:15 1 Peter 5:9 1 Peter 5:10

Hebrews 12:6 · BSB

For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”

Psalm 73:1 · BSB

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Psalm 73:14 · BSB

For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.

Psalm 73:15 · BSB

If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.

1 Peter 5:9 · BSB

Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.

1 Peter 5:10 · BSB

And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

9Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

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