⁸ But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

⁸ If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.

⁸ But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

⁸ the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. Would you prefer an irresponsible God?