Hebrews 12:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God's children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all]. [Prov. 3:11, 12.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

But if you don’t experience discipline, which happens to all children, then you are illegitimate and not real sons and daughters.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But if you are without that discipline in which all have become sharers, then you are of adultery, and you are not sons.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Hebrews 12:8 Cross References

Psalm 73:1

Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

1 Corinthians 11:32

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

Hebrews 12:6

for the Lord disciplines those whom he loves and chastises every child whom he accepts.”