Hebrews 12:16

or lest there be found among you any fornicator, or dissolute, as Isu, who for one meal sold his birthright.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 be aware lest any one be found among you failing of the grace of Aloha; or lest any root of bitternesses should put forth the flower and injure you, and many be contaminated:

17For ye know, also, that afterward he desired to inherit the blessing, but was rejected; for place for repentance he found not, though with tears he sought it.

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Cross References

Mark 7:21For from within, from the heart of the sons of men, go forth evil thoughts, adultery, fornication, robbery, murder,

Acts 15:29that you abstain from that which hath been sacrificed (to idols), and from blood, and from that which is strangled, and from fornication; and while you keep yourselves from these, you will be well. Be confirmed in our Lord.

1 Corinthians 5:9I have written to you by epistle, not to be mixed with fornicators;

1 Corinthians 10:8nor commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell, in one day, twenty and three thousand;

Galatians 5:19For the works of the flesh are known, which are (these), fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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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