12 for the Lord reproves him whom he loves,
    as (A)a father the son in whom he delights.

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12 because the Lord disciplines those he loves,(A)
    as a father the son he delights in.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 3:12 Hebrew; Septuagint loves, / and he chastens everyone he accepts as his child

12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

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If you are left without discipline, (A)in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

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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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