Hebrews 12:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 73:1 : 1 Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
  • Ps 73:14-15 : 14 For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning. 15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
  • Heb 12:6 : 6 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."
  • 1 Pet 5:9-9 : 9 Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings. 10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

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  • Heb 12:9-11
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    9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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  • Prov 3:11-12
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    11 My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

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  • Deut 21:18-19
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  • Deut 8:5
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    5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.

  • Prov 13:24
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    24 One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

  • Prov 19:18
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    18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.

  • Gal 4:7
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    7 So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

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    4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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    14 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

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    14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

    15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

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    17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

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    17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

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    18 I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."

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