For (A)whom the Lord loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.”

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(A)For (B)whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He punishes every son whom He accepts.”

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For the Lord disciplines and corrects those whom He loves,
And He punishes every son whom He receives and welcomes [to His heart].”(A)

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because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,(A)
    and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:6 Prov. 3:11,12 (see Septuagint)

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

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

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

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Now if you are exempt from correction and without discipline, in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate children and not sons [at all].

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If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline(A)—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

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

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