Hebrews 12:17

For ye also know that wanting afterward to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though having sought it with tears.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

In Context

16lest a fornicator or profane man like Esau, who, in place of one meal sold his birthright.

18For ye have not come to a mountain being felt, and which burned with fire, and to darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:24Because I have called, and ye have refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man has regarded,

Matthew 7:23And then I will profess to them, I never acknowledged you. Depart from me, ye who work lawlessness.

Luke 13:24Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Hebrews 6:8But producing thorns and thistles it is unfit and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:5-18

The Benefit of Afflictions; The Use of Afflictions; Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father… Read the whole commentary →

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