Hebrews 12:16

lest any one may be a fornicator, or a profane person, as was Esau, who for one morsel sold his birthright.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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

15looking diligently lest any one may fail from the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up may trouble you, and through it many may be defiled;

17For you know that, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance even though having sought it diligently with tears.

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Cross References

Mark 7:21For within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Acts 15:29to abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which keeping yourselves, you will do well. Fare ye well.

1 Corinthians 5:9I have written unto you in a letter to have no fellowship with fornicators;

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

Galatians 5:19But the works of carnality are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, debauchery,

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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