Hebrews 12:8

If you are not disciplined (which everyone has experienced), then you are illegitimate and not true children.

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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

7Be patient as you experience God's discipline because he is treating you as his children. What child doesn't experience a father's discipline?

9For if we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn't we even more be subject to the discipline of our spiritual Father which leads to life?

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Cross References

Psalms 73:1Truly God is good to Israel, to those whose minds are pure.

Hebrews 12:6The Lord disciplines everyone he loves, and he punishes everyone he welcomes as his child.”

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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