Hebrews 12:17

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

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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

16lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:24Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

Matthew 7:23Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Luke 13:24“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

Hebrews 6:8but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end 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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