Hebrews 12:8
If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
BSB
Parallel translations (2) ▾
ASV
But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
KJV
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
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Commentary
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15 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| εἰ | ei | If | G1487 → |
| δὲ | de | however | G1161 → |
| χωρίς | chōris | without | G5565 → |
| ἐστε | este | you are | G1510 → |
| παιδείας | paideias | of discipline | G3809 → |
| ἧς | hēs | of which | G3739 → |
| μέτοχοι | metochoi | partakers | G3353 → |
| γεγόνασιν | gegonasin | they have become | G1096 → |
| πάντες, | pantes | all, | G3956 → |
| ἄρα | ara | then | G686 → |
| νόθοι | nothoi | illegitimate children | G3541 → |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → |
| οὐχ | ouch | not | G3756 → |
| υἱοί | huioi | sons | G5207 → |
| ἐστε. | este | you are. | G1510 → |
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