Hebrews 12:17

For 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.

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

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

16or lest there be found among you any fornicator, or dissolute, as Isu, who for one meal sold his birthright.

18For ye have not drawn nigh to the burning fire, and to that which may be touched, neither to darknesses, to mist, and to tempest,

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Cross References

Matthew 7:23And then will I confess to them, I never knew you; go far from me, ye workers of iniquity.

Luke 13:24Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for I say to you that many will seek to enter in, but shall not be able.

Hebrews 6:8but that which shall produce thorns and briers hath reprobation; nor is it far from the curse, but its end is burning.

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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