Hebrews 12:8

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

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

9And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

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Cross References

Psalms 73:1Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.

Hebrews 12:6For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.

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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