Hebrews 12:16

Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

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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

15Take care that no one fails to use the loving help of God, ‘that no bitterness is allowed to take root and spring up, and cause trouble,’ and so poison the whole community.

17For you know that even afterward, when he wished to claim his father’s blessing, he was rejected – for he never found an opportunity to repair his error – though he begged for the blessing with tears.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:31But Jacob said, “Sell me first of all your right as the eldest.”

Mark 7:21for it is from within, out of the hearts of people, that there come evil thoughts – sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Acts 15:29That you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from impurity. If you guard yourselves against such things, it will be well with you. Farewell.’

1 Corinthians 5:9I told you, in my letter, not to associate with immoral people –

1 Corinthians 10:8Nor let us act immorally, as some of them acted, with the result that twenty-three thousand of them fell dead in a single day.

Galatians 5:19The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these – sexual immorality, impurity, indecency,

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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