KJVBut if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.
But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Hebrews — Apostolic writings (New Testament).
1. Wherefore, seeing we also, etc. This conclusion is, as it were, an epilogue to the former chapter, by which he shows the end for which he gave a catalogue of the saints who excelled in faith under the Law, even that every one should be prepared to imitate them;…