Hebrews 12:8

But if you are without that discipline in which all have become sharers, then you are of adultery, and you are not sons.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Persevere in discipline. God presents you to himself as sons. But what son is there, whom his father does not correct?

9Then, too, we have certainly had the fathers of our flesh as instructors, and we reverenced them. Should we not obey the Father of spirits all the more, and so live?

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Cross References

Psalms 73:1The understanding of Asaph. O God, why have you rejected us to the end. Why has your fury become enraged over the sheep of your pasture?

Hebrews 12:6For whomever the Lord loves, he chastises. And every son whom he accepts, he scourges.

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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