Hebrews 12:8

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 73:1 : 1 [A Psalm of Asaph]. Surely God is good to Israel, [Even] to such as are pure in heart.
  • Ps 73:14-15 : 14 For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning. 15 If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.
  • Heb 12:6 : 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
  • 1 Pet 5:9-9 : 9 whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world. 10 And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.

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    4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:

    5and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;

    6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

    7It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father chasteneth not?

  • Heb 12:9-11
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    9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

    10For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of his holiness.

    11All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of righteousness.

  • Prov 3:11-12
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    11My son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah; Neither be weary of his reproof:

    12For whom Jehovah loveth he reproveth; Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

  • Deut 21:18-19
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    18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;

    19then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

  • Deut 8:5
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    5And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so Jehovah thy God chasteneth thee.

  • Prov 13:24
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    24He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

  • Prov 19:18
    72%

    18Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; And set not thy heart on his destruction.

  • Gal 4:7
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    7So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

  • Prov 23:13-14
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    13Withhold not correction from the child; [For] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

    14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

  • 1 Cor 11:32
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    32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

  • Eph 6:4
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    4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 7:14
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    14I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

  • 1 Cor 4:14-15
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    14I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

    15For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.

  • Rom 8:14-15
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    14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

    15For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

  • Rom 8:17
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    17and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified with [him] .

  • Job 5:17
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    17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

  • Job 8:4
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    4If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;

  • Prov 1:8
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    8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

  • Rev 3:19
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    19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

  • Ps 94:12
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    12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law;

  • 1 Pet 1:17
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    17And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:

  • 2 Pet 1:8
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    8For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Prov 4:1
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    1Hear, [my] sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding:

  • Heb 12:17
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    17For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind [in his father], though he sought it diligently with tears.

  • Prov 22:15
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    15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; [But] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

  • Heb 6:8
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    8but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.

  • Prov 13:1
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    1A wise son [heareth] his father's instruction; But a scoffer heareth not rebuke.

  • Phil 2:15
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    15that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:

  • Gal 4:28
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    28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.

  • Prov 29:15
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    15The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

  • 2 Cor 6:18
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    18And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

  • Ezek 18:14
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    14Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins, which he hath done, and feareth, and doeth not such like;

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    26He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

  • Gal 4:1-2
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    1But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all;

    2but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father.

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    17Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest; Yea, he will give delight unto thy soul.

  • Heb 12:15
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    15looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby the many be defiled;

  • Prov 17:25
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    25A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.