Charles Ellicott Commentary Hebrews 12:8

"But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons." — Hebrews 12:8 (ASV)

Of which all are partakers.—Better, of which all (God’s children) have been made partakers. Were it possible that they have never known this fatherly “chastening,” it must be that they are not sons whom a father acknowledges, and for whose training he has care.