Hebrews 12:8
Strong's Lexicon
If
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

you do not experience
ἐστε (este)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

χωρίς (chōris)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 5565: Apart from, separately from; without. Adverb from chora; at a space, i.e. Separately or apart from.

discipline
παιδείας (paideias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3809: From paideuo; tutorage, i.e. Education or training; by implication, disciplinary correction.

like
ἧς (hēs)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3739: Who, which, what, that.

everyone
πάντες (pantes)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

else,
μέτοχοι (metochoi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3353: A sharer, partner, associate. From metecho; participant, i.e. a sharer; by implication, an associate.

then
ἄρα (ara)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 686: Then, therefore, since. Probably from airo; a particle denoting an inference more or less decisive.

you are
ἐστε (este)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

illegitimate children
νόθοι (nothoi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3541: Illegitimate, base-born. Of uncertain affinity; a spurious or illegitimate son.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

not true
οὐχ (ouch)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

sons.
υἱοί (huioi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 5207: A son, descendent. Apparently a primary word; a 'son', used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship.

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

Young's Literal Translation
and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

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

New American Standard Bible
But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

King James Bible
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
If you are not disciplined--and everyone undergoes discipline--then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

New Living Translation
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.

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

New American Standard Bible
But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But if you are without discipline--which all receive--then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

International Standard Version
Now if you are without any discipline, in which all sons share, then you are illegitimate and not God's sons.

NET Bible
But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.
















Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

1 Peter 5:9
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

Hebrews 1:1
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

Hebrews 12:7
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Hebrews 12:6
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Hebrews 12:5
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Hebrews 12:10
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Hebrews 12:11
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
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