Hebrews 12:8

But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Revised Version 1895

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 chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?

9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

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Cross References

Psalms 73:1Surely God is good to Israel, even to such as are pure in heart.

Hebrews 12:6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

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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