Hebrews 12:8
Hebrews 12:4-11 The Message (MSG)
In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through—all that bloodshed! So don’t feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children? My dear child, don’t shrug off God’s discipline, but don’t be crushed by it either. It’s the child he loves that he disciplines; the child he embraces, he also corrects. God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. He’s treating you as dear children. This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; it’s training, the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. Would you prefer an irresponsible God? We respect our own parents for training and not spoiling us, so why not embrace God’s training so we can truly live? While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God’s holy best. At the time, discipline isn’t much fun. It always feels like it’s going against the grain. Later, of course, it pays off big-time, for it’s the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God.
Hebrews 12:8 King James Version (KJV)
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Hebrews 12:8 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
Hebrews 12:8 New Century Version (NCV)
If you are never disciplined (and every child must be disciplined), you are not true children.
Hebrews 12:8 American Standard Version (ASV)
But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Hebrews 12:8 New International Version (NIV)
If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.
Hebrews 12:8 New King James Version (NKJV)
But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
Hebrews 12:8 Amplified Bible (AMP)
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].
Hebrews 12:8 New Living Translation (NLT)
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.