Hebrews 12:8
If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 73:1Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Hebrews 12:6For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son 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 →