Hebrews 12:17

for you know that also afterward, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for he did not find a place of conversion, though having sought it with tears.

Literal Standard Version

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 anyone be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food sold his birthright,

18For you did not come near to the mountain touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and storm,

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:24Because I have called, and you refuse, || I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

Matthew 7:23And then I will acknowledge to them, that—I never knew you, depart from Me you who are working lawlessness.

Luke 13:24“Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and will not be able;

Hebrews 6:8but that which is bearing thorns and briers [is] disapproved of, and near to cursing, whose end [is] for 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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