Hebrews 12:8 - Common English Bible

But if you don’t experience discipline, which happens to all children, then you are illegitimate and not real sons and daughters.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

But if you are without that discipline in which all have become sharers, then you are of adultery, and you are not sons.