Hebrews 12:17

For 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.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

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

18For you have not come to a mountain that may be touched, and that burns with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest,

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Cross References

Matthew 7:23And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

Luke 13:24Strive to enter in through the strait gate; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Hebrews 6:8But that which produces thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near the curse, the end of which is to be burned.

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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