Hebrews 12:17

Ye 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.

Tyndale New Testament

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

16and that there be no fornicator or vnclene person as Esau which for one breakfast solde his birthright.

18For ye are not come vnto the mounte that can be touched and vnto burninge fyre nor yet to myst and darcknes and tempest of wedder

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Cross References

Matthew 7:23And then will I knowlege vnto them that I never knewe them. Departe from me ye workers of iniquite.

Luke 13:24stryve with youre selves to enter in at the strayte gate: For many I saye vnto you will seke to enter in and shall not be able.

Hebrews 6:8But that grounde which beareth thornes and bryars is reproved and is nye vnto cursynge: whose ende is to be burned.

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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