Hebrews 12:8
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
KJV
εἰ δὲ χωρίς ἐστε παιδίας, ἧς μέτοχοι γεγόνασιν πάντες, ἄρα νόθοι καὶ οὐχ υἱοί ἐστε.
Greek NT
quod si extra disciplinam estis, cujus participes facti sunt omnes : ergo adulteri, et non filii estis.
Vulgate
But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
ASV
But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards and not sons.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μέτοχος
metochos
adjective · 6×
νόθος
nothos
adjective · 1×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
παιδεία
paideia
noun · 6×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
χωρίς
choris
adverb · 41×
ἄρα
ara
particle · 36×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: καὶ οὐχ υἱοί ἐστε | WH/Treg/NIV: καὶ οὐχ υἱοί ἐστε | RP: ἐστε καὶ οὐχ υἱοί
- καὶ οὐχ υἱοί ἐστε — SBLGNT
- καὶ οὐχ υἱοί ἐστε — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐστε καὶ οὐχ υἱοί — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. There are two kinds of consolation, apparently opposed to one another, but yet contributing great strength each to the other; both of which he has here put forward. The one is when we say that persons have suffered much: for the soul is refreshed, when it has many witnesses of its own sufferings, and this he introduced above, saying, Call to mind the former days, in which af…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 5:9 — Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
- Deut 23:2 — A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
- Heb 12:6 — For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
- Ps 73:1 — Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
- Ps 73:14 — For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.