If ye are without chastening (ε χωρις εστε παιδειας). Condition of first class, determined as fulfilled. Note position of εστε (ar…

But if you are without chastisement. If you never meet with anything that is adapted to correct your faults, to subdue your temper, to chi…

Of which all are partakers.—Better, of which all (God’s children) have been made partakers. Were it possible th…

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisemen…

The hypothetical possibility of being without chastisement is looked at and a devastating conclusion drawn. It is the universal experience of child…

But if you be without chastisement
Or have no affliction:

The persevering obedience of faith in Christ was the race set before the Hebrews, in which they must either win the crown of glory, or have everlas…

Having exhorted them to endure evil patiently, according to the example of the ancient fathers and Christ, the Apostle now exhorts them to do the s…