Hebrews 12:8 meaning and explanation
If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
Hebrews 12:8, Berean Standard Bible
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The writer of Hebrews is urging a struggling congregation to endure hardship by seeing it as a father's training rather than abandonment. He has just quoted Proverbs 3:11-12, where God disciplines the son He loves, and he reasons from ordinary family life: a father corrects the children he claims.
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