Hebrews 12:16

Let there be no fornicator, or prophane person as Esau, which for one portion of meate solde his birthright.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

15Take heede, that no man fall away from the grace of God: let no roote of bitternes spring vp and trouble you, lest thereby many be defiled.

17For ye knowe howe that afterwarde also when he woulde haue inherited the blessing, he was reiected: for he founde no place to repentance, though he sought that blessing with teares.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:31And Iaakob sayd, Sell me euen nowe thy birthright.

Mark 7:21For from within, euen out of the heart of men, proceede euill thoughtes, adulteries, fornications, murthers,

Acts 15:29That is, that ye abstaine from things offered to idoles, and blood, and that that is strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keepe your selues, ye shall doe well. Fare ye well.

1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote vnto you in an Epistle, that ye should not companie together with fornicatours,

1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twentie thousand.

Galatians 5:19Moreouer the workes of the flesh are manifest, which are adulterie, fornication, vncleannes, wantonnes,

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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