Hebrews 12:17

You remember that even when he wanted to receive the blessing later on he was refused. Even though he really tried, and cried hard, Esau couldn't change what he had done.

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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

16Make sure there's nobody who is sexually immoral, or irreligious, like Esau was. He sold his birthright for a single meal.

18You haven't arrived at a physical mountain that can be touched, that burned with fire, to a stormy place of black darkness,

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:24For I have called you, but you refused to listen; I reached out my hand to you, but you didn't care.

Matthew 7:23Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Leave me, you people who practice wickedness!’

Luke 13:24“Try very hard to enter the narrow doorway, because I tell you that many will try to go in, and won't succeed.

Hebrews 6:8But land that only produces weeds and thorns is worthless, and is about to be condemned. In the end all that can be done is to burn it.

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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