Hebrews 12:16

lest [there be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;

Darby Translation

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

15watching lest [there be] any one who lacks the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and many be defiled by it;

17for ye know that also afterwards, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, (for he found no place for repentance) although he sought it earnestly with tears.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:31And Jacob said, Sell me now thy birthright.

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

Acts 15:29to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.

1 Corinthians 5:9I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;

1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

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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