Hebrews 12:16

lest any fornicator or worldly person be like Esau, who, for the sake of one meal, sold his birthright.

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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

15Be contemplative, lest anyone lack the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up and impede you, and by it, many might be defiled,

17For you know that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected. For he found no place for repentance, even though he had sought it with tears.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:31Jacob said to him, “Sell me your right of the firstborn.”

Mark 7:21For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Acts 15:29that you abstain from things immolated to idols, and from blood, and from what has been suffocated, and from fornication. You will do well to keep yourselves from these things. Farewell.”

1 Corinthians 5:9As I have written to you in an epistle: “Do not associate with fornicators,”

1 Corinthians 10:8And let us not commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and so twenty-three thousand fell on one day.

Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence,

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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