Hebrews 12:17

For 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.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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

18For ye have not come to a mount that is touched, and burning with fire, nor to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

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Cross References

Matthew 7:23And then will I profess to them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye who work iniquity.

Luke 13:24And he said to them: Strive to enter in through the strait gate; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Hebrews 6:8but if it bears thorns and briers it is rejected, and is near to cursing; whose end is to be burned.

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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