Hebrews 12:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Hebrews 12:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 12:6
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
1 Peter 5:9-10
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. …
Psalms 73:1
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
Psalms 73:14-15
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Bastard Character Chastisement Contentment Correction Decision Despondency

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-17)

Here the apostle presses the exhortation to patience and perseverance by an argument taken from the gentle measure and gracious nature of those sufferings which the believing Hebrews endured in their Christian course. I. From the gentle and moderate degree and measure of their sufferings: You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin, Heb. 12:4. Observe, 1. He owns that they had suffe…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. if ye be without--excluded from participation in chastisement, and wishing to be so. all--all sons: all the worthies enumerated in the eleventh chapter: all the witnesses (He 12:1). are--Greek, “have been made.” then are ye bastards--of whom their fathers take no care whether they are educated or not; whereas every right-minded father is concerned for the moral well-being of his legitimate son.…