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

⁸ 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

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ 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)

⁸ But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Common English Bible

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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.”