Hebrews 12:16

Be careful that there be no sexually immoral or ungodly person such as Esau, who for one meal sold his own birthright.

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Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

In Context

15Be careful so that no one lacks God's grace, and that no root of bitterness grows up to cause trouble, so that many do not become polluted by it.

17For you know that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, because he found no opportunity for repentance, even though he sought it with tears.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:31Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.”

Mark 7:21For from within a person, out of the heart, proceed evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

Acts 15:29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, blood, things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, it shall be well with you. Farewell.”

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

1 Corinthians 10:8Let us not commit sexual immorality, as many of them did. In one day, twenty-three thousand people died because of it.

Galatians 5:19Now the works of the sinful nature are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

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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