Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
if ye be without--excluded from participation in chastisement, and wishing to be so.
all--all sons: all the worthies enumerated in the eleventh chapter: all the witnesses (Hebrews 12:1).
are--Greek, "have been made."
then are ye bastards--of whom their fathers take no care whether they are educated or not; whereas every right-minded father is concerned for the moral well-being of his legitimate son. "Since then not to be chastised is a mark of bastardy, we ought [not to refuse, but] rejoice in chastisement, as a mark of our genuine sonship" [CHRYSOSTOM].
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Genesis 42:37
Psalms 119:75-78
Isaiah 53:5
1 Corinthians 11:32
Hebrews 12:7
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