Hebrews 12:16

lest there be any lewd person, or profane man, as Esau, who, for a single meal, sold his birthright.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

In Context

15taking care, lest any one slight the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness spring up and trouble you, and by this many be defiled;

17For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no means to change his father’s mind, though he sought it earnestly with tears.

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Cross References

Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the purposes which are evil: adulteries, lewd actions, murders,

Acts 15:29That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness; from which if you keep yourselves carefully, you will do well. Farewell.

1 Corinthians 5:9I have written to you in the letter not to associate with lewd persons;

1 Corinthians 10:8Nor let us be guilty of lewdness, as some of them were guilty, and fell, in one day, twenty-three thousand.

Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are well known, and they are these―lewdness, uncleanness, wantonness,

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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