Hebrews 12:8

But if you are without chastisement, of which all are par takers, then are you bastards, and not sons.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons: for what son is there whose father chastens him not?

9So, then, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?

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Cross References

Hebrews 12:6For, whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son that he receives.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:5-18

The Benefit of Afflictions; The Use of Afflictions; Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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