Hebrews 12:8

If you are left without that discipline, in which all children share, it shows that you are bastards, 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

7It is for your discipline that you have to endure all this. God is dealing with you as his children. For where is there a child whom his father does not discipline?

9Further, when our earthly fathers disciplined us, we respected them. Should we not, then, much rather yield submission to the Father of souls, and live?

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Cross References

Psalms 73:1Yes, God is good to the upright, the Lord to the pure in heart.

Hebrews 12:6For it is him whom he loves that he disciplines, and he chastises every child whom he acknowledges.’

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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