Hebrews 12:16

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau; who for one mess, sold his first birthright.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

15Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder, and by it many be defiled.

17For know ye that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, although with tears he had sought it.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:31And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.

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

Acts 15:29That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which things keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.

1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators.

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

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

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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