8If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.


In Context

5 And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,

6 because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son."

7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

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

9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live!

10 Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness.

Hebrews 12:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:8But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:8But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:8But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:8But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:8But if ye are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:8and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:8But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.