Hebrews 12:17

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

18But you have not drawn near to a tangible mountain, or a burning fire, or a whirlwind, or a mist, or a storm,

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:24For I called, and you refused. I extended my hand, and there was no one who watched.

Matthew 7:23And then will I disclose to them: ‘I have never known you. Depart from me, you workers of iniquity.’

Luke 13:24“Strive to enter through the narrow gate. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and not be able.

Hebrews 6:8But whatever brings forth thorns and briers is rejected, and is closest to what is accursed; their consummation is in combustion.

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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