Hebrews 12:17

For 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.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

18For ye have not approached the mountain that could only be groped for, and that burned with fire, and the thick cloud, and the darkness, and the tempest,

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Cross References

Matthew 7:23And then will I profess unto them, that I never knew you: depart from me, ye workers of iniquity.

Luke 13:24Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.

Hebrews 6:8but if it produceth thorns and thistles, it is abandoned, and near the curse of barrenness, whose end will be for 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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