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Hebrews 12:8
Hebrews 12:8 is verse 8 of Hebrews chapter 12, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
King James Version
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
World English Bible
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
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Hebrews 12:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
8 If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
9 Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
10 Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Hebrews 12:6For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
Psalms 73:1Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Psalms 73:14For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.
Psalms 73:15If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
1 Peter 5:9Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.
1 Peter 5:10And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.