Hebrews 12:16

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of bread parted with his birthrights.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

15carefully observing lest any of you fail of attaining the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and by it many be defiled;

17For ye know, that when afterwards he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place for a change of his father’s mind, though he sought it earnestly with tears.

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Cross References

Mark 7:21For from within out of the heart of men proceed wicked reasonings, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

Acts 15:29that ye abstain from eating whatever is sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from whoredom: from which things carefully preserving yourselves, ye shall do well. Farewell.

1 Corinthians 5:9I have written unto you in an epistle that you should not associate with fornicators.

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

Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, whoredom, impurity, 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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