Hebrews 12:16

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

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 one come short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and the many be thereby defiled;

17For ye know that he also afterward, when he wished to inherit the blessing, was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought after it with tears.

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Cross References

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

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

1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote to you, in my letter, not to keep company with fornicators;

1 Corinthians 10:8Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them did, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

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

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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