Hebrews 12:8 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

English ASV

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

English Amplified

Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God's children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all]. [Prov. 3:11, 12.]

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God's children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all]. [Prov. 3:11, 12.]

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

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

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

English EASY 2024

God teaches all his children not to do wrong things. So if he does not punish you, it shows that you are not really his children. Instead, you are like children who do not really belong to him.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

So, if you never receive the discipline that every child must have, you are not true children and don't really belong to God.

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

English GNT (Good News Translation)

If you are not punished, as all his children are, it means you are not real children, but bastards.

English God's Word - GW 1995

If you aren't disciplined like the other children, you aren't part of the family.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

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

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

If you are without discipline, of which everyone has partaken, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

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

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

God trains all of his children. But what if he doesn't train you? Then you are like children of people who weren't married to each other. You are not truly God's children.

English NIV

If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

English NKJ 1982

But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

English NLT

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 after all.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

We all should welcome God’s discipline as the validation of authentic sonship. For if we have never once endured his correction it only proves we are strangers and not sons.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

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

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

If God doesn't punish you when you need it, as other fathers punish their sons, then it means that you aren't really God's son at all—that you don't really belong in his family.

English Tyndale 1537

If ye be not under correction (where of all are partakers) then are ye bastards and not sons.

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