Hebrews 12:17

For 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.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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

18For you have not come to the mountain that can be touched, and that is burnt with fire, and unto blackness and darkness, and tempest,

Read all of Hebrews 12

Cross References

Matthew 7:23Then I will confess unto them that I never knew you: depart from me, ye who work iniquity.

Luke 13:24Agonize to enter in through the narrow gate: because many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Hebrews 6:8but that which produces thorns and thistles, is reprobate, and nigh unto the curse; whose end is unto 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Hebrews 12:17