Hebrews 12:17

Because you do indeed know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing he was rejected; he found no place for a change of mind, though he sought it diligently 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

16that no one be a fornicator, or worldly like Esau, who in exchange for one meal gave up his birthright.

18Now you have not come to a touchable mountain burning with fire, to blackness and darkness, to tempest;

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Cross References

Matthew 7:23And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me you practitioners of lawlessness!’

Luke 13:24“Exert yourselves to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will try to enter and not manage it.

Hebrews 6:8but should it bear thorns and thistles, it is disqualified, almost a curse, whose destiny is a burning.

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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