Hebrews 12:8

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.

World English 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

7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

Read all of Hebrews 12

Cross References

Psalms 73:1Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Hebrews 12:6for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Hebrews 12:8