Hebrews 12:16

and that there be no fornicator or vnclene person as Esau which for one breakfast solde his birthright.

Tyndale New Testament

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

15And looke to that no man be destitute of the grace of God and that no rote of bitternes springe vp and trouble and therby many be defiled:

17Ye knowe how that afterwarde when he wolde have inherited the blessinge he was put by and he foude no meanes to come therby agayne: no though he desyred it with teares.

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Cross References

Mark 7:21For from with in even oute of the herte of men proceade evill thoughtes: advantry fornicacion murder

Acts 15:29that ye abstayne from thinges offered to ymages from bloud from strangled and fornicacion. From which yf ye kepe youre selves ye shall do well. So fare ye well.

1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote vnto you in a pistle that ye shuld not company with fornicatours.

1 Corinthians 10:8Nether let vs comit fornicacion as some of them committed fornicacion and were destroyed in one daye .xxiii. thousande.

Galatians 5:19The dedes of the flesshe are manyfest whiche are these advoutrie fornicacion vnclenes wantannes

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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