Hebrews 12:8

WEB

⁸But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.

KJV

⁸But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

BSB

⁸If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

FBV

⁸If you are not disciplined (which everyone has experienced), then you are illegitimate and not true children.

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Extra References

Hebrews 12:6

⁶for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

⁹Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings. ¹⁰But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Psalms 73:1

¹Surely God ^[+] is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Psalms 73:14-15

¹⁴For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning. ¹⁵If I had said, “I will speak thus”, behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.