Hebrews 12:16

And make sure that no one is a fornicator or a profane person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for a single meal.

Text-Critical English NT

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

15Make sure no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble, which would result in many becoming defiled.

17You know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, even though he sought the blessing with tears.

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Cross References

Mark 7:21For from within, from the hearts of men, come evil thoughts, adultery, fornication, murder,

Acts 15:29You must abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what has been strangled, and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these things, you will do well. Farewell.”

1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with fornicators.

1 Corinthians 10:8We must not commit fornication as some of them did, and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them died.

Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are obvious: adultery, fornication, impurity, sensuality,

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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