Hebrews 12:8

And if ye be without the correction with which every one is corrected, ye are aliens, and not children.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Endure, therefore, correction, because Aloha acteth towards you as with children: for who is a son whom his father doth not correct?

9And if (when) the fathers of the flesh have chastised us we have revered them, how much more are we bound to be subject to our spiritual fathers, that we may live?

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Cross References

Hebrews 12:6for whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth, and scourgeth those children in whom he taketh pleasure.

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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