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Hebrews 12:8

8 But if you are without discipline, aof which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

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Hebrews 12:8 — The 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 — English Standard Version (ESV)

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

Hebrews 12:8 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

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

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.

Hebrews 12:8 — The 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 — 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 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

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

Hebrews 12:8 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

If you aren’t disciplined like the other children, you aren’t part of the family.

Hebrews 12:8 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

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

Hebrews 12:8 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

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

Hebrews 12:8 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

But if you are without discipline, in which all legitimate sons have become participants, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

Hebrews 12:8 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

God trains all of his children. But what if he doesn’t train you? Then you are like children of people who weren’t married to each other. You are not truly God’s children.


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