Hebrews 12:8
New International Version
If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

New Living Translation
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 at all.

English Standard Version
If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

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

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

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

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

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

NASB 1995
But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

NASB 1977
But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

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

Amplified Bible
Now if you are exempt from correction and without discipline, in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate children and not sons [at all].

Christian Standard Bible
But if you are without discipline—which all receive —then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But if you are without discipline—which all receive—then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if you are without the discipline by which every person is disciplined, you are strangers and not children.

Contemporary English Version
God corrects all his children, and if he doesn't correct you, then you don't really belong to him.

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If you aren't disciplined like the other children, you aren't part of the family.

Good News Translation
If you are not punished, as all his children are, it means you are not real children, but bastards.

International Standard Version
Now if you are without any discipline, in which all sons share, then you are illegitimate and not God's sons.

Literal Standard Version
And if you are apart from discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are bastards, and not sons.

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

New American Bible
If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards.

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

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

New Heart English Bible
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not sons.

Webster's Bible Translation
But if ye are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.

Weymouth New Testament
And if you are left without discipline, of which every true son has had a share, that shows that you are bastards, and not true sons.

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

Young's Literal Translation
and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
God Disciplines His Sons
7Endure 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. 9Furthermore, 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?…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

1 Peter 5:9
Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Hebrews 12:6
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Psalm 73:1,14,15
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart…

1 Peter 5:9,10
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world…

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Hebrews 12
1. An exhortation to constant faith, patience, and godliness by Christ's example
22. A commendation of the new covenant.














(8) Whereof all are partakers.--Better, whereof all (God's children) have been made partakers. Were it possible that they have never known this fatherly "chastening," it must be that they are not sons whom a father acknowledges, and for whose training he has care.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
If
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

you do not experience
ἐστε (este)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

discipline
παιδείας (paideias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3809: From paideuo; tutorage, i.e. Education or training; by implication, disciplinary correction.

like
ἧς (hēs)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

everyone
πάντες (pantes)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

else,
μέτοχοι (metochoi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3353: A sharer, partner, associate. From metecho; participant, i.e. a sharer; by implication, an associate.

then
ἄρα (ara)
Conjunction
Strong's 686: Then, therefore, since. Probably from airo; a particle denoting an inference more or less decisive.

you are
ἐστε (este)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

illegitimate children
νόθοι (nothoi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3541: Illegitimate, base-born. Of uncertain affinity; a spurious or illegitimate son.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

not true
οὐχ (ouch)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

sons.
υἱοί (huioi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5207: A son, descendent. Apparently a primary word; a 'son', used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship.


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