Hebrews 12:8

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

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?

9Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced [them]; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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Cross References

Psalms 73:1{A Psalm of Asaph.} Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a pure heart.

Hebrews 12:6for whom [the] Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom 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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