Hebrews 12:8

American Standard Version

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

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Hebrews 12:8 in other translations

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

Hebrews 12:8 · World English Bible

Hebrews 12:8 in context

  1. 6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
  2. 7It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?
  3. 8But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
  4. 9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
  5. 10For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.