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But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
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Verse 8. In these last four verses we may observe as many subjects of consolation under afflictions. God, our Father, is the author of them; the chastisement he inflicts is the proof of his love; it is the sign or mark of our divine adoption; it is a necessary condition of our being adopted.
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