Hebrews 12:8

But if you do not experience discipline, ¹  something all sons ²  have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

biblegateway Heb 12:8

If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

biblegateway Heb 12:8

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

biblegateway Heb 12:8

If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children after all.

biblegateway Heb 12:8

the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. Would you prefer an irresponsible God?

SABDAweb Heb 12:8

But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.

bibleoremus Heb 12:8

If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.

biblegateway Heb 12:8

But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

biblegateway Heb 12:8

But if you do not experience discipline, ¹  something all sons ²  have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

¹ tn Grk “you are without discipline.”

² tn Grk “all”; “sons” is implied by the context.